(In Progress)

Anthologies

French, Peter A., Theodore E. Uehling, and Howard K. Wettstein, eds. (1984), Causation and Causal Theories, Midwest Studies in Philosophy IX, University of Minnesota Press.

Sosa, Ernest, and Michael Tooley, eds. (1993), Causation, Oxford Readings in Philosophy, Oxford University Press.

Kim, Jaegwon, and Ernest Sosa, eds. (1999) Metaphysics: An Anthology, Blackwell Publishers.

Tooley, Michael (1999) Laws of Nature, Causation, and Supervenience, Analytic Metaphysics, vol. 1, Garland Publishing, Inc.

Monographs

Armstrong, David (1983) What is a Law of Nature?, Cambridge University Press.

Beauchamp, Tom, and Alexander Rosenberg (1981) Hume and the Problem of Causation, Oxford University Press.

Fales, Evan (1990) Causation and Universals, Routledge and Kegan Paul.

David Hume, (1739) A Treatise on Human Nature, Oxford University Press, esp. Bk I, Part III.

Mackie, J. L. (1974) The Cement of the Universe, Oxford University Press.

Salmon, Wesley (1984) Scientific Explanation and the Causal Structure of the World, Princeton University Press.

Tooley, Michael (1987) Causation, Oxford University Press.

Van Fraassen, Bas (1989) Laws and Symmetry, Oxford University Press.

Articles

Anscombe, G. E. M. (1971) "Causality and Determination," in Causality and Determination, Cambridge University Press.

Ayer, A. J., "What is a Law of Nature," Revue Internationale de Philosophie, 10, 1956, 144-165. Reprinted in Michael Tooley (1999) Laws of Nature, Causation, and Supervenience, Analytic Metaphysics, vol. 1, Garland Publishing, Inc.

Bennett, Jonathan (1987) "Event Causation: The Counterfactual Analysis," in James E. Tomberlin, ed, Philosophical Perspectives, 1, Metaphysics, Ridgeview Publishing Company. Reprinted in Ernest Sosa and Michael Tooley, eds. (1993), Causation, Oxford Readings in Philosophy, Oxford University Press.

Blackburn, Simon (1990), "Hume and Thick Connexions," Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, supplementary vol. 50, 237-250.

Cartwright, Nancy (1979) "Causal Laws and Effective Strategies," Noûs, 13, 419-437. Reprinted in Michael Tooley ed., (1999) Laws of Nature, Causation, and Supervenience, Analytic Metaphysics, vol. 1, Garland Publishing, Inc.

Davidson, Donald (1967) "Causal Relations," Journal of Philosophy, 64, pp. 691-703. Reprinted in Ernest Sosa and Michael Tooley, eds., (1993), Causation, Oxford Readings in Philosophy, Oxford University Press; also in Jaegwon Kim and Ernest Sosa, eds. (1999), Metaphysics: An Anthology, Blackwell Publishers.

Dretske, Fred I. (1977) "Laws of Nature," Philosophy of Science, 44, pp. 248-268. Reprinted in Martin Curd and J. A. Cover, eds., Philosophy of Science: The Central Issues, 1998, W. W. Norton & Co.

Ducasse, C. J (1926) "On the Nature and the Observability of the Causal Relation," Journal of Philosophy, 23, 57-68. Reprinted in Ernest Sosa and Michael Tooley, eds. (1993), Causation, Oxford Readings in Philosophy, Oxford University Press.

Dupré, John (1984) "Probabilistic Causality Emancipated," in French, Peter A., Theodore E. Uehling, and Howard K. Wettstein, eds. (1984), Causation and Causal Theories, Midwest Studies in Philosophy IX, University of Minnesota Press, 169-175.

Dupré, John and Nancy Cartwright (1988) "Probablity and Causality: Why Hume and Indeterminism Don’t Mix," Noûs, 22, 521-536.

Hempel, Carl G (1965) Aspects of Scientific Explanation, Free Press, p. 349.

Horwich, Paul (1987) "Lewis’s Program," in Asymmetries in Time: Problems in the Philosophy of Science, MIT Press, 167-176. Reprinted in Ernest Sosa and Michael Tooley, eds. (1993), Causation, Oxford Readings in Philosophy, Oxford University Press.

Kim, Jaegwon (1971) "Causes and Events: Mackie on Causation," Journal of Philosophy, 68, pp. 426-441. Reprinted in Ernest Sosa and Michael Tooley, eds., (1993), Causation, Oxford Readings in Philosophy, Oxford University Press.

Kim, Jaegwon (1973) "Causes and Counterfactuals," Journal of Philosophy, 70, 570-572. Reprinted in Ernest Sosa and Michael Tooley, eds. (1993), Causation, Oxford Readings in Philosophy, Oxford University Press; also in Michael Tooley (1999) Laws of Nature, Causation, and Supervenience, Analytic Metaphysics, vol. 1, Garland Publishing, Inc.

Kneale, William (1950) "Natural Laws and Contrary-to-Fact Conditionals," Analysis, 10, 121-125. Reprinted in Michael Tooley (1999) Laws of Nature, Causation, and Supervenience, Analytic Metaphysics, vol. 1, Garland Publishing, Inc.

Lewis, David (1973) "Causation," Journal of Philosophy, 70, 556-567. Reprinted in Ernest Sosa and Michael Tooley, eds. (1993), Causation, Oxford Readings in Philosophy, Oxford University Press; also in Jaegwon Kim and Ernest Sosa, eds. (1999) Metaphysics: An Anthology, Blackwell Publishers; also in Michael Tooley (1999) Laws of Nature, Causation, and Supervenience, Analytic Metaphysics, vol. 1, Garland Publishing, Inc.

Lewis, David (1973), "The Metalinguistic Theory: Laws of Nature" in Counterfactuals, section 3.3, Harvard University Press, 72-77. Reprinted in Michael Tooley (1999) Laws of Nature, Causation, and Supervenience, Analytic Metaphysics, vol. 1, Garland Publishing, Inc.

Lewis, David (1986), "Postscripts to ‘Causation,’" in Philosophical Papers, Vol II, Oxford University Press, 172-213.

Mackie, J. L. (1965) "Causes and Conditions," American Philosophical Quarterly, pp. 245-264. Reprinted in Ernest Sosa and Michael Tooley, eds., (1993), Causation, Oxford Readings in Philosophy, Oxford University Press; also in Jaegwon Kim and Ernest Sosa, eds. (1999), Metaphysics: An Anthology, Blackwell Publishers.

Menzies, Peter (1989) "Probabilistic Causation and Causal Processes," Philosophy of Science, 56, 642-663. Reprinted in Michael Tooley (1999) Laws of Nature, Causation, and Supervenience, Analytic Metaphysics, vol. 1, Garland Publishing, Inc.

Nagel, Ernest (1961) The Structure of Science, Harcourt, Brace & World, pp. 559-590.

Popper, Karl (1967), "A Revised Definition of Natural Necessity," British Journal for the Philosophy of Science, 18, 316-321.

Russell, Bertrand, "On the Notion of Cause," Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society, 13, pp. 1-26. Reprinted in Mysticism and Logic, Doubleday, 1953, 171-196.

Salmon, Wesley (1980) "Causality: Production and Propagation," Proceedings of the 1980 Biennial Meeting of the Philosophy of Science Association, vol. 2, ed. Peter D. Asquith and Ronald N. Giere, 49-69. Reprinted in Ernest Sosa and Michael Tooley, eds. (1993), Causation, Oxford Readings in Philosophy, Oxford University Press.

Salmon, Wesley (1980) "Probabilistic Causality," Pacific Philosophical Quarterly, 61, pp. 50-74. Reprinted in Sosa, Ernest, and Michael Tooley, eds. (1993) Causation, Oxford Readings in Philosophy, Oxford University Press.

Salmon, Wesley (1984) "Causal Connections," from Scientific Explanation and the Causal Structure of the World, , Princeton University Press.

Salmon, Wesley (1984) Scientific Explanation and the Causal Structure of the World, , Princeton University Press.

Scriven, Michael (1966) "Defects of the Necessary Condition Analysis of Causation," in W. Dray, ed., Philosophical Analysis and History, Harper and Row, 258-162. Reprinted in Ernest Sosa and Michael Tooley, eds. (1993), Causation, Oxford Readings in Philosophy, Oxford University Press.

Suppes, Patrick (1984) "Conflicting Intuitions about Causality," in French, Peter A., Theodore E. Uehling, and Howard K. Wettstein, eds. (1984) Causation and Causal Theories, Midwest Studies in Philosophy IX, University of Minnesota Press, pp. 151-168.

Skyrms, Brian (1977) "Resiliency, Propensities, and Causal Necessity," Journal of Philosophy, 74, 704-713. Reprinted in Michael Tooley (1999) Laws of Nature, Causation, and Supervenience, Analytic Metaphysics, vol. 1, Garland Publishing, Inc.

Tooley, Michael (1977) "The Nature of Laws," Canadian Journal of Philosophy, 7/4, pp. 667-698. Reprinted in Michael Tooley (1999), Laws of Nature, Causation, and Supervenience, Analytic Metaphysics, vol. 1, Garland Publishing, Inc.

Tooley, Michael (1984) "Laws and Causal Relations," in French, Peter A., Theodore E. Uehling, and Howard K. Wettstein, eds. (1984), Causation and Causal Theories, Midwest Studies in Philosophy IX, University of Minnesota Press, pp. 93-112.

Tooley, Michael (1987), "Laws and Causal Relations" in Michael Tooley (1987) Causation, Oxford University Press. [Revised version of Tooley (1984).]

Tooley, Michael (1990), "Causation: Reductionism versus Realism," Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, 50, Supplement (Fall 1990), pp. 215-236. Reprinted in Ernest Sosa and Michael Tooley, eds., (1993), Causation, Oxford Readings in Philosophy, Oxford University Press.

Tooley, Michael (1990) "The Nature of Causation: A Singularist Approach," Canadian Journal of Philosophy, supplementary vol. 16, pp. 271-322. Reprinted in Jaegwon Kim and Ernest Sosa, eds. (1999), Metaphysics: An Anthology, Blackwell Publishers.