The Nature of Causation

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Latest Episodes:

The regularity theory of causation Jun 09, 2016

Hume's famously influential account of causation

The counterfactual theory of causation Jun 09, 2016

The idea that event c causes event e if and only if had c not had occurred e would not have occurred either.

The necessary connection analysis of causation Jun 09, 2016

The idea that there are real metaphysical necessities relating cause and effect.

The singularist theory of causation Jun 09, 2016

The idea that causation is a relation science will one day discover.

Time and Causation Jun 09, 2016

Both time and causation seems to have the same 'direction’ . Can we explain this?

Mental Causation Jun 09, 2016

We do what we do because we believe what we believe. Or do we? How does mental causation work?