Explaining Actual Causation in Terms of Possible Causal Processes

We point to several kinds of knowledge that play an important role in controversial examples of actual causation. One is knowledge about the causal mechanisms in the domain and the causal processes that result from them. Another is knowledge of what conditions trigger such mechanisms and what conditions can make them fail.

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