2024
DOI: 10.1086/730698
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The Worldly Infrastructure of Causation

Naftali Weinberger,
Porter Williams,
James Woodward

Abstract: This paper describes an alternative to currently dominant philosophical approaches to the metaphysics of causation. It is motivated by the gap that currently exists between metaphysical accounts and recent epistemological research on causal reasoning and methods for discovering causal relationships.Our approach aims at characterizing structural features of the actual world that support, and are exploited by, successful strategies for causal reasoning and discovery. We call these features the "worldly infrastru… Show more

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