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Hitchcock's (2001) treatment of singular and general causation

Jakob, Christian

In: Minds and Machines, 2006, vol. 16, no. 3, p. 277-287

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    Title
    • Hitchcock's (2001) treatment of singular and general causation
    Author
    • Jakob, Christian. Institute of Philosophy and History of Science, University of Berne, 3012, Berne, Switzerland
    Document Type
    • Postprint
    OAI-PMH Identifier
    • oai:doc.rero.ch:313376
    Summary
    Hitchcock (2001a) argues that the distinction between singular and general causation conflates the two distinctions ‘actual causation vs. causal tendencies' and ‘wide vs. narrow causation'. Based on a recent regularity account of causation I will show that Hitchcock's introduction of the two distinctions is an unnecessary multiplication of causal concepts