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CASTING A SHADOW ON LEWIS’S THEORY OF CAUSATION

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Sayan E.
Organon F. medzinárodný časopis pre analytickú filozofiu
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2019
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vol. 26
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issue 2
287 – 297
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First I present a puzzle involving two opaque objects and a shadow cast on the ground. After I offer a solution to this puzzle by identifying which of the objects is causally responsible for the shadow, I argue that this case poses a counterexample to David Lewis’s latest counterfactual account of causation, known as his influence theory. Along the way, I discuss preemption, over determination, absence causation, and trumping preemption.
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