What Is Causation and Can It Explain?
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In this video, we discuss seven topics:
1. Aristotle’s Four Causes
2. Causation, Mechanism, and Explanation
3. Causes Are Merely Necessary (and not Sufficient) for Effects
4. Explanations vs. Explanation-Sketches
5. Ceteris Paribus Clauses
6. Causation as Statistical Explanation
7. Genuine Indeterminacy
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