Perhaps the key philosophical questions concerning causality are the following: +what are causal relationships? how can one discover causal relationships? how should one reason with causal relationships? This chapter will focus on the first two questions.
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Williamson, J. (2007). Causality. In: Gabbay, D., Guenthner, F. (eds) Handbook of Philosophical Logic. Handbook of Philosophical Logic, vol 14. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-6324-4_2
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