Document Type
Article
Publication Date
2011
Abstract
My aim in this paper is to make a case for the singularist view from the perspective of a mechanical theory of causation (Glennan 1996, 1997, 2010, forthcoming), and to explain what, from this perspective, causal generalizations mean, and what role they play within the mechanical theory.
Recommended Citation
Glennan, Stuart, "Singular and General Causal Relations: A Mechanist Perspective" (2011). Scholarship and Professional Work - LAS. Paper 195.
http://digitalcommons.butler.edu/facsch_papers/195
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Comments
Final definitive version available in Causality in the Sciences by Oxford University Press
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