Causation and Persistence: A Theory of Causation
Philosophy and Phenomenological ResearchPublished 1 March 2000
John W. Carroll, Douglas Ehring
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Abstract
Ehring shows the inadequacy of received theories of causation, and, introducing conceptual devices of his own, provides a wholly new account of causation as the persistence over time of individual properties, or tropes.
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