Wednesday, July 10, 2013

Quasi-deterministic causation

Say that:

  • C quasi-deterministically causes E iff necessarily either C causes E or C does not cause anything.
Now, quasi-deterministic causation of actions by reasons is compatible with libertarian views of freedom. Moreover, quasi-deterministic causation provides something like contrastive explanation of the effect. Thus, libertarian views of freedom are compatible with something like contrastive explanation of actions.

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