McDonald, Jennifer (2020) Strong Proportionality and Causal Claims. In: UNSPECIFIED.
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There are several supposedly lethal objections to the view that causation is essentially proportional. The first targets an account of proportionality in terms of causal models, pointing out that proportionality is too easily satisfied in causal model accounts of causation through manipulation of the range of values that a variable can take (Franklin-Hall, 2016). The second argues that proportionality legitimizes only the most general things as causes, and proportionality thereby contravenes causal intuitions (Bontly, 2005; Franklin-Hall, 2016; McDonnell, 2018, 2017; Weslake, 2013). The final, and perhaps most intractable, objection holds that proportionality counter-intuitively legitimizes disjunctive causes (Shapiro and Sober, 2012; Weslake, 2017; Woodward, 2018). This paper provides a unified response to these objections, which is best formulated in a causal model framework. I first articulate two independently plausible principles of variable selection – exclusivity and exhaustivity. I then show how the adoption of these principles responds to Franklin-Hall’s objection, and dissolves the remaining two.
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| Keywords: | proportional causation, causation, causal models, interventionism | ||||||
| Subjects: | General Issues > Causation General Issues > Models and Idealization |
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| Depositing User: | Ms Jennifer McDonald | ||||||
| Date Deposited: | 14 Jan 2020 01:55 | ||||||
| Last Modified: | 14 Jan 2020 01:55 | ||||||
| Item ID: | 16809 | ||||||
| Subjects: | General Issues > Causation General Issues > Models and Idealization |
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| Date: | 12 January 2020 | ||||||
| URI: | https://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/id/eprint/16809 |
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