Sentence examples for problem of causation from inspiring English sources

But we must confront the problem of causation.

This "distinct problem of causation" justified the absence-of-probable-cause requirement we recognized in Hartman.

Rosenberg, A; Beauchamp, TL, Hume and the Problem of Causation (1981), New York: Oxford University Press.

He argues that, by focusing on causality, the contemporary theories fatally neglect the more fundamental problem of causation.

Because of the severity of the shock, it was reasonable to infer that whatever happened around crises was in fact crisis-related, so problems of causation were sidestepped.

And when contemporary philosophers discuss problems of causation, they typically mean this sense.

Rosenberg, A; Braybrooke, D, Vincula Revindicata, in Philosophical Problems of Causation, edited by Beauchamp, TL (1974), pp. 217-222, EnCAno, CA: Dickenson.

I asked her about the problem of proving causation between the acts of companies and environmental damage, which has doomed previous attempted prosecutions in the US.

The zombie idea inverts the traditional problem of mental causation.

Most philosophers nowadays repudiate souls, but the problem of mental causation has not gone away.

We have been treating the problem of mental causation as though it were a problem in applied metaphysics.