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- Title
Absence and Abnormality.
- Authors
Vaassen, Bram
- Abstract
Absences pose a dilemma for theories of causation. Allowing them to be causes seems to make theories too permissive. Banning them from being causes seems to make theories too restrictive. An increasingly popular approach to this dilemma is to acknowledge that norms can affect which absences count as causes. In this article, I distinguish between two influential implementations of such 'abnormality' approaches and argue that so-called 'double-prevention mechanisms' provide counterexamples against both.
- Subjects
CAUSATION (Philosophy); PRESENCE (Philosophy); BIOLOGICAL models of abnormality (Psychology); FIREARMS; NORMATIVITY (Ethics)
- Publication
Analysis, 2023, Vol 83, Issue 1, p98
- ISSN
0003-2638
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1093/analys/anac030