Causation: One Word, Many Things

By Nancy Cartwright. Philosophia Scientiæ, 2004

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Causal learning in rats and humans: A minimal rational model (2008, background): “However, apart from causal Bayes nets there is a wealth of alternative theories of causality which are in part inconsistent with each other but still claim to provide a proper representation of causal relations in the world (see Cartwright, 1989, 2004; Dowe, 2000; Shafer, 1996).”
Causal Pluralism versus Epistemic Causality (2006, background): “This yields one, multifaceted notion of cause.”
Expanding the Dimensions of Epistemic Cognition: Arguments From Philosophy and Psychology (2011, background): “As another example of these more specific epistemic structures, consider the structure of causation—a form of knowledge that has been intensively examined by philosophers (Cartwright, 2004; Woodward, 2003).”