Wesley Salmon's Process Theory of Causality and the Conserved Quantity Theory

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Explanation in Artificial Intelligence: Insights from the Social Sciences (2017, background): “Transference theories [5, 43, 39], on the other hand, are not defined on dependence, but instead describe physical causation as the transference of energy between objects.”
Causal-explanatory pluralism: How intentions, functions, and mechanisms influence causal ascriptions. (2010, background): “As a first pass, C is a cause of E if there was physical contact between C and E. Theories differ in how they cash out this intuition about transference (e.g. Dowe, 1992, 2008; Salmon, 1984).”
Causation by Disconnection (2000, background): “And for Dowe (1992, 1995) a causal process is the worldline of an enduring conserved-quantity-bearing object.5 A third physical connection program is that of J. L. Mackie and Douglas Ehring, on which a causal mechanism is postulated as: "a process which underlies a regular sequence and each phase…”