Causation by Disconnection

By Jonathan Schaffer. Philosophia Scientiæ, 2000

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A Functional Account of Causation; or, A Defense of the Legitimacy of Causal Thinking by Reference to the Only Standard That Matters—Usefulness (as Opposed to Metaphysics or Agreement with Intuitive Judgment) (2014, background): “Regarding the descriptive project, aspects of work by Lewis (1973), Schaffer (2000), Hall (2004), and others appear to fall into this category, although these writers concurrently pursue metaphysical-sounding projects as well.”
Causal reasoning with forces (2015, background): “The importance of spatial and temporal contiguity has been repeatedly observed in standard “billiard ball” type events in which one object hits and launches another into motion (Michotte, 1946/1963; Leslie, 1984; for a review, see Scholl and Tremoulet, 2000; Hubbard, 2013a,b).”
Cause by Omission and Norm: Not Watering Plants (2017, background): “This problem persists for process theorists [Schaffer 2000]—those who accept that causation is a physical exchange of entities between events [Dowe 2004]—and for dependence theorists of causation [McGrath 2005]—those who accept that counterfactual dependence is sufficient for causation [Lewis 1973].”
A Regularity Theoretic Approach to Actual Causation (2013, background): “However, Schaffer (2000) and Collins (2000) hold that trumping and preemptive prevention are not reducible to overdetermination and preemption.”