Taking causing out of Bennett's Making Things Up

Inquiry: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Philosophy 63 (7):722-744 (2020)
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ABSTRACT In Making Things Up, Bennett defends the intriguing idea that causation should be included among the building relations. I critique Bennett’s arguments for inclusion, and claim that inclusion distorts her own treatments of causation, relative fundamentality, and absolute fundamentality. Instead, I argue for treating causation and grounding as separate species of generative, explanatory difference-making.

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Jonathan Schaffer
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