List of figures
Acknowledgements
Introduction: causation and its asymmetries
1. Metaphysical pictures and wishes
1*. Transfer theories
2. Is causation a relation among events?
3. Causation, regularities and time: Hume's theory
4. Causation and independence
4*. Causation, independence and causal connection
5. Agency theory
5*. Causal generalizations and agency
6. The counterfactual theory
6*. Independence and counterfactual dependence
7. Counterfactuals, agency and independence
7*. Agency, counterfactuals and independence
8. Causation, explanation and laws
8*. Causation, explanation and independent alterability
9. Probabilistic causation
10. Causation and conditional probabilities
10*. Causal graphs and conditional probabilistic dependencies
11. Intervention, robustness and probabilistic dependence
11*. Interventions and conditional probabilities
12. Operationalizing and revising the independence theory
12*. Probability distributions and causation
13. Complications and conclusions
Appendix A: alphabetical list of propositions
Appendix B: list of theorems
References
Index.
