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Preface
xi
ι.
Empirical Analysis and the Metaphysics of Causation
ι
1.1.
Empirical Analysis
2
2.1.1.
The Distinctive Features of Empirical Analysis
9
1.2.
Empirical Analysis of the Metaphysics of Causation
13
1.2.1.
Effective Strategies
14
1.3.
Empirical Analysis of the Non-metaphysical Aspects of Causation
17
1.4.
Causation as Conceptually Tripartite
20
1.5.
A Sketch of the Metaphysics of Causation
22
1.6.
Fundamental and Derivative
24
1.6.1.
The Kinetic Energy Example
25
1.6.2.
Some Constitutive Principles of
Fundamentalny
30
1.7.
Abstreduction
34
1.8.
Strict Standards and Relaxed Standards
37
1.9.
Limitations on the Aspirations of Empirical Analysis
44
1.10.
Comparison of Empirical and Orthodox Analysis
45
1.11.
Summary
48
part
1
The Bottom Conceptual Layer of Causation
2.
Fundamental Causation
53
2.1.
Preliminaries
57
2.1.1.
Events
58
2.1.2.
Laws
64
2.2.
Terminance
67
2.2.1.
Causal Contribution
75
2.2.2.
Trivial Terminance
76
2.3.
The Space-time Arena
79
2.4.
Classical Gravitation
82
2.4.1.
Galilean Space-time
82
2.4.2.
Terminants
in Classical Gravitation
83
2.4.3.
Overdetermination in Classical Gravitation
85
2.4.4.
Instantaneous Causation
87
2.5.
Relativistic
Electromagnetism
89
2.$.1.
Minkowski Space-time
89
2.5.2.
Terminants
in Relativistic
Electromagnetism
91
2.5.3.
Classical Unified Field Theory
92
2.6.
Content Independence
94
2.7.
Continuity and Shielding
98
2.8.
Transitivity
100
2.9.
Determinism
101
2.10.
Stochastic Indeterminism
104
2.10.1.
Stochastic Lattices
104
2.10.2.
A Toy Theory of Particle Decay
105
2.11.
Non-stochastic Indeterminism
107
2.11.1.
Newtonian Indeterminism
107
2.11.2.
Contribution Extended
109
2.12.
General Relativity
109
2.12.1.
Spatio-temporal Indeterminism
110
2.12.2.
Closed Time-like Curves
111
2.13.
Quantum Mechanics
112
2.13.1.
The Quantum Arena and its Contents
112
2.13.2.
Bohmian Mechanics
113
2.13.3.
Spontaneous Collapse Interpretations
114
2.13.4.
Other Interpretations of Quantum Mechanics
116
2.14·
Summary
1x6
part
и
The Middle Conceptual Layer of Causation
3.
Counterfactuals and Difference-making
121
3.1.
General Causation
121
3.2.
Counterfactuals
123
3.3.
Goodman s Account of Counterfactuals
124
3.4.
The Nomic Conditional
128
3.5.
Comparison to Ordinary Language Conditionals
134
3.6.
Prob-dependence
135
3.7.
Contrastive
Events
136
3.8.
Summary
138
4.
Derivative Causation
140
4.1.
Influence
140
4.2.
Prob-influence
142
4.3-
General Causation
144
4.4.
Temporally Extended Events
150
4.5.
Idiomatic Differences between Promotion and Causation
152
4.6.
Aspect Promotion
154
4.7.
Promotion by Omission
155
4.8.
Contrastivity
155
4.9.
Transitivity
157
4.10.
Continuity
160
4.11.
Shielding
161
4.12.
Partial Influence
162
4.13.
Summary
167
5.
The Empirical Content of Promotion
168
5.1.
The Promotion Experiment
169
5.2.
Insensitivity Considerations
171
5.3.
Thermodynamics and Statistical Mechanics
175
5.4.
The Asymmetry of Bizarre Coincidences
184
5.5.
The Analogy to Thermal and Mechanical Energy
186
5.6.
Broad and Narrow Promotion
187
5.7.
Inferences from Empirical Data to Promotion
193
5.7.1.
Simpson s Paradox
194
5.8.
Why There Are Effective Strategies
197
5.9.
Mechanistic Theories of Causation
199
6.
Backtracking Influence
203
6.1.
The Direction of Influence
205
6.2.
Proof of Causal Directness
207
6.3.
A Search for Empirical Phenomena
214
6.4.
Past-directed then Future-directed Influence
219
7.
Causal Asymmetry
225
7.1.
The Empirical Content of the Causal Asymmetry
226
7.2.
Causation and Advancement
230
7.3.
An Explanation of the Advancement Asymmetry
232
7.3 л.
Prob
-influence through Backtracking
234
7.3.2.
Directly Past-directed
Prob
-influence
236
7.3.3.
Summary
238
7.4.
Pseudo-backtracking Prob-influence
239
7.5.
The Entropy Asymmetry and Causal Directionality
244
7.6.
Recent Alternative Explanations of Causal Asymmetry
249
7.6.1.
The Albert-Kutach-Loewer Approach
25 0
7.6.2.
The Price-Weslake Approach
252
7.6.3.
The Fork Asymmetry Approach
254
7.7.
Fundamental Influence Asymmetry
257
7.7.1.
Fundamental Influence Asymmetry by Fiat
258
7.7.2.
Fundamental Influence Asymmetry by Happenstance
260
7.8.
Summary
262
part in The Top Conceptual Layer of Causation
8.
Culpable Causation
265
8.1.
The Empirical Insignificance of Culpability
270
8.1.1.
Part I: Singular Causation
271
8.1.2.
Part II: General Causation
272
8.2.
Culpability as a Heuristic for Learning about Promotion
275
8.3.
Culpability as an Explanatory Device
277
8.4.
Culpability as a Proxy for Terminance and Promotion
277
8.5.
Commentary
281
9-
The Psychology of Culpable Causation
282
9.1.
The Toy Theory of Culpable Causation
284
9.2.
Culpability!
287
9.2.1.
Salience
2,87
9.2.2.
Irreflexivity
289
9.2.3.
Asymmetry
2,89
9.2.4..
Significant Promotion
2.90
9.3.
Shortcomings of Culpability!
291
9.3.1.
Prec ise Character of the Effect
291
9.3.2.
Overlapping Causation
291
9.3.3.
Probability-Lowering Causes
292
9.4.
Culpability^
292
9.5.
Shortcomings of Culpabilityj
297
9.5.1.
Saved Fizzles
298
9.
S
-2.
Early Cutting Preemption
298
9.5.3.
Late Cutting
Preëmp
tion
298
9.6.
Culpability^
299
9.7.
Culpability
300
9.8.
Summary
305
10.
Causation in a Physical World
307
10.
x. Summary
307
10.2.
Future Directions
312.
References
32,1
Index
329
This book is the first comprehensive attempt
to solve what Hartry Field has called the cen¬
tral problem in the metaphysics of causation :
the problem of reconciling the need for causal
notions in the special sciences with the limited
role of causation in physics. If the world evolves
fundamentally according to laws of physics,
what place can be found for the causal regu¬
larities and principles identified by the special
sciences? Douglas Kutach answers this ques¬
tion by invoking a novel distinction between
fundamental and derivative reality and a com¬
plementary conception of reduction. He then
constructs a framework that allows all causal
regularities from the sciences to be rendered in
terms of fundamental relations. By drawing on
a methodology that focuses on explaining the
results of specially crafted experiments, Kutach
avoids the endless task of catering to pre-theo-
retical judgments about causal scenarios.
This volume is a detailed case study that uses
fundamental physics to elucidate causation,
but technicalities are eschewed so that a wide
range of philosophers can profit. The book is
packed with innovations: new models of events,
probability, counterfactual dependence, influ¬
ence, and determinism. These lead to surprising
implications for topics like Newcomb s paradox,
action at a distance, Simpson s paradox, and
more. Kutach explores the special connection
between causation and time, ultimately provid¬
ing a never-before-presented explanation for
the direction of causation. Along the way, read¬
ers will discover that events cause themselves,
that low barometer readings do cause thunder¬
storms after all, and that we humans routinely
affect the past more than we affect the future.
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