Several canonical figures in early modern philosophy – Descartes, Spinoza, Locke, Hume and Kant – are often situated with respect to one another through their views on causation.
The verdict of Lord Lloyd of Berwick that there was a link between military service and Gulf war syndrome, even if the jury was out on causation, and that there should be one-off payments to up to 6,000 troops, was not accepted by the government.
But he denies that one need impose such a strong requirement on causation and causal explanation.
If you adopt a mind-set that replaces the narrative with the empirical, you have problems thinking about personal responsibility and morality, which are based on causation.
In biology, physicochemical explanations are addressed by Tinbergen's questions on causation and ontogeny, which taken together are known as "proximate" causes.
CITY MISMANAGEMENT -- The State's most sustained arguments on causation, however, are based on evidence that the Board of Education mismanages New York City schools and the City itself fails to devote a sufficient part of its revenues to them.
Most of us in the climate field are no longer working on causation, but on understanding and reducing the worst economic, social and environmental consequences of what now appears to be unavoidable and severe climatic change.
Steven Frucht said that, in the past, their effectiveness was often viewed as evidence that dystonias were psychogenic, but that nowadays it's viewed as the opposite, and also as a potential window on causation.
(For Reid on causation and free will, see Yaffe 2004).
See the entry on 'Causation and Manipulability' for extensive discussion.
(See also Hume on Causation in section 4.4).
