Marcellesi, Alexandre (2012) Is race a cause? In: UNSPECIFIED.

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Advocates of the counterfactual approach to causal inference argue that race isn’t a cause. I object that their argument is invalid and that its key premise is unwarranted. I also criticize the criterion, which I call ‘Holland’s rule’, the counterfactual approach relies on to distinguish causes from non-causes. Finally, I argue that racial discrimination cannot be causally explained unless one assumes race to be a cause. I conclude that the view that race is not a cause lacks
support and that there are good reasons to adopt the opposite view that race is a cause.

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Item Type:	Conference or Workshop Item (UNSPECIFIED)
Creators:	Creators Email ORCID Marcellesi, Alexandre amarcellesi@ucsd.edu
Keywords:	race, causation, counterfactual, Holland, Rubin
Subjects:	General Issues > Causation Specific Sciences > Economics
Depositing User:	Mr. Alexandre Marcellesi
Date Deposited:	04 Nov 2012 15:29
Last Modified:	04 Nov 2012 15:29
Item ID:	9402
Subjects:	General Issues > Causation Specific Sciences > Economics
Date:	3 November 2012
URI:	https://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/id/eprint/9402

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