Essential Structure for Causal Models.
This paper introduces and defends a new principle for when a structural equation model is apt for analyzing actual causation. Any such analysis in terms of these models has two components: a recipe for reading claims of actual causation off an apt model, and an articulation of what makes a model apt...
| Publicado en: | Australasian Journal of Philosophy Vol. 103; no. 2; pp. 293 - 316 |
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Jun2025
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