Propensity trajectories, preemption, and the identity of events

Ellery Eells

pp. 119-141

in: James H. Fetzer (ed), Propensities and probabilities, Synthese 132, 2002.

Abstrakt

I explore the problem of ``probabilistic causal preemption'' in the context of a``propensity trajectory'' theory of singular probabilistic causation. This involvesa particular conception of events and a substantive thesis concerning events soconceived.