Hitchcock’s (2001) treatment of singular and general causation |
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| Authors: | Christian Jakob |
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| Affiliation: | (1) Institute of Philosophy and History of Science, University of Berne, 3012 Berne, Switzerland |
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| Abstract: | Hitchcock (2001a) argues that the distinction between singular and general causation conflates the two distinctions ‘actual causation vs. causal tendencies’ and ‘wide vs. narrow causation’. Based on a recent regularity account of causation I will show that Hitchcock’s introduction of the two distinctions is an unnecessary multiplication of causal concepts. |
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| Keywords: | Causal claims General causation Philosophy of science Regularity theory Singular causation |
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