We Should Not Be a Counterpart Theorist of Events If We Want to Be a Counterfactual Theorist of Causation

• Published in: Theoria (Lund, Sweden) Vol. 87; no. 5; pp. 1038 - 1049
• Main Author: Tang, Zhiheng
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Chichester, UK John Wiley & Sons Ltd 01.10.2021
• Subjects: causation; counterfactual theory; counterpart theory; events

Although David Lewis advocates a counterpart‐theoretic treatment of objects but rejects a parallel treatment of events, many philosophers have — mainly to solve some puzzles within the framework of a Lewisian counterfactual analysis of causation — suggested that the counterpart‐theoretic treatment b...