Chapters in Books

1. Hoover, KD, Counterfactuals and causal structure, in Causality in the Sciences, edited by Phyllis McKay Illari, Federica Russo & Jon Williamson (September, 2011), pp. 338-360, Oxford University Press [doi].
   (last updated on 2024/04/17)

   Abstract:
   The structural account of causation derives inter alia from Herbert Simon's work on causal order and was developed in Hoover's Causality in Macroeconomics and earlier articles. The structural account easily connects to, enriches, and illuminates graphical or Bayes net approaches to causal representation and is able to handle modular, nonmodular, linear, and nonlinear causal systems. The representation is used to illuminate the mutual relationship between causal structure and counterfactuals, particularly addressing the role of counterfactuals in Woodward's manipulationist account of causation and Cartwright's attack on 'impostor counterfactuals'.