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244 | Katie Elliott on Metaphysics, Chance, and Explanation
Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas
The Metaphysician's Debate on Causation
Theories of causes and effects involve counterfactuals, says philosopher. Theory suggests spooky essences of some sort, which I'm against in principle. But the thinnest answer is that you might have particular instances of like one-off correlations or small correlations but the causes are like the big global correlations. There are some counterfactual facts that are grounding or making true the causal claims of this world.
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