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Actual Causality: A Survey, Joseph Halpern (Cornell)
4:10 pm
Actual Causality: A Survey, Joseph Halpern (Cornell)
@ Faculty House, Columbia U
Dec 7 @ 4:10 pm
What does it mean that an event C “actually caused” event E? The problem of defining actual causation goes beyond mere philosophical speculation. For example, in many legal arguments, it is precisely what needs to be established in order to determine responsibility. (What exactly was the actual cause of the car accident or the medical problem?) The philosophy literature has been struggling with the problem of defining causality since the days of Hume, in the 1700s. Many of the definitions have been couched[...]
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