Causation and the Conservation of Energy in General Relativity.

Consensus in the contemporary philosophical literature has it that conserved quantity theories of causation such as that of Dowe—according to which causation is to be analysed in terms of the exchange of conserved quantities (for example, energy)—face damning problems when confronted with contempora...

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Published in:	British Journal for the Philosophy of Science Vol. 77; no. 3; pp. 867 - 895
Main Authors:	Ramírez, Sebastián Murgueitio, Read, James, Páez, Andrés
Format:	Article
Published:	University of Chicago Press Sep2026
Subjects:	Conservation of energy General relativity (Physics) Causation (Philosophy) Calculus of tensors Philosophy of science Conserved quantity Scientific method Symmetries (Quantum mechanics)
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