Mathias Frisch provides the first sustained philosophical discussion of conceptual problems
in classical particle-field theories. Part of the book focuses on the problem of a satisfactory …

An argument that we should be optimistic about the capacity of “methodologically
omnivorous” geologists, paleontologists, and archaeologists to uncover truths about the …

Causation is at once familiar and mysterious. Many believe that the causal relation is not
directly observable, but that we nevertheless can somehow detect its presence in the world …

Conditional sentences are among the most intriguing and puzzling features of language:
analysis of their meaning and function has important implications for, and uses in, many …

The basic idea of counterfactual theories of causation is that the meaning of causal claims
can be explained in terms of counterfactual conditionals of the form “If event c had not …

The past few decades have seen an explosion of research on causal reasoning in
philosophy, computer science, and statistics, as well as descriptive work in psychology. In …

There is a systematic and suggestive analogy between grounding and causation. In my
view, this analogy is no coincidence. Grounding and causation are alike because grounding …

Absences. See also Facts, negative; Void and abnormality criterion, 295 of absences, 283
as background conditions, 173–175 and biff, 284–285, 288, 448–449 cannot be causes, 25 …

This book defends a radical new theory of contingency as a physical phenomenon. Drawing
on the many-worlds approach to quantum theory and cutting-edge metaphysics and …

A number of recent authors (Galles and Pearl, Found Sci 3 (1): 151–182, 1998; Hiddleston,
Noûs 39 (4): 232–257, 2005; Halpern, J Artif Intell Res 12: 317–337, 2000) advocate a …