Experimental studies keep giving us more and more evidence against the theory that people have two concepts of causation (dependence vs. production) This is a nice window into how recent work in cognitive science of causal judgment is going beyond previous approaches A thread

EPxphilosopher.bsky.socialSep 26, 2024 2:49pm

There’s a famous theory that people have two different concepts of causation (production vs. dependence) Experimental studies keep providing more and more evidence against this theory Here’s the very latest: osf.io/preprints/ps... (from Tadeg Quillien, @kevingoneill.bsky.social, Paul Henne)

First, rewind around twenty years to the early 2000s. Back then, the study of causation was in a very different place People offering counterfactual theories of causation were in the business of trying to give necessary and sufficient conditions