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- Title
A Critique of Substance Causation.
- Authors
Buckareff, Andrei
- Abstract
In her recent paper, 'A Defense of Substance Causation,' Ann Whittle makes a case for substance causation. In this paper, assuming that causation is a generative or productive relation, I argue that Whittle's argument is not successful. While substances are causally relevant in causal processes owing to outcomes being counterfactually dependent upon their role in such occurrences, the real productive work in causal processes is accomplished by the causal powers of substances.
- Subjects
SUBSTANCE (Philosophy); CAUSATION (Philosophy); QUALITY (Philosophy); ARGUMENT; WHITTLE, Ann
- Publication
Philosophia, 2017, Vol 45, Issue 3, p1019
- ISSN
0048-3893
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/s11406-017-9855-7