%0 Book Section %T Causation in contemporary analytical philosophy %+ Institut Jean-Nicod (IJN) %A Kistler, Max %B La Causalità-La Causalité-Die Kausalität-Causality %E Costantino Esposito, Pasquale Porro %I Brepols %P 635-668 %8 2002 %D 2002 %K Causation %K law of nature %K transference %K conserved quantity %K probability %K counterfactuals %K manipulability %K causal responsibility %K event %K fact %Z Humanities and Social Sciences/Philosophy/domain_shs.phil.epistemo %Z Humanities and Social Sciences/Philosophy/domain_shs.phil.metaphysicsBook sections %X Contemporary analytic philosophy is in the midst of a vigorous debate on the nature of causation. Each of the main proposals discussed in this chapter faces important problems: the deductive-nomological model, the counterfactual theory, the manipulability theory, the probabilistic theory and the transference theory. After having explored possible solutions to these problems, I conclude that one version of the transference approach is most promising. However, as I show in the last section, it is necessary to supplement this transference approach with the notion of lawful dependency. This gives rise to the notion of causal responsibility. %G English %2 https://hal.science/ijn_00000404/document %2 https://hal.science/ijn_00000404/file/ijn_00000404_00.pdf %L ijn_00000404 %U https://hal.science/ijn_00000404 %~ SHS %~ ENS-PARIS %~ CNRS %~ CDF %~ EHESS %~ DEC %~ AO-PHILOSOPHIE %~ HIPHISCITECH %~ OMNIPHILO %~ PSL %~ ENS-PSL %~ CDF-PSL %~ JEAN-NICOD