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https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.26362/20260110

Hume-Russell Causation in Lieu of Actual Causation: An Economic Turn

Cheng-Chih Tsai orcid.org/0000-0001-8074-9414 ; Centre for Holistic Education, MacKay Medical University, New Taipei City, Taiwan

Sažetak

HR causation, short for Hume-Russell causation, is a type-causation-based account of causation which, while capturing some salvageable features of commonsensical actual causality, makes sensible causal attributions in complicated cases such as over-determination, pre-emption, joint cause, and mixed cases in such a way that social goals are more efficiently achieved. This novel notion of HR causation is justified by, so far as social evolution is concerned, the fact that a society adopting HR causation typically outperforms its counterpart society that resorts to actual causality in liability ascription.

Ključne riječi

actual causation; but-for test; HR causation; Law and Economics movements; probability exhaustion; type causation

Hrčak ID:

347719

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/347719

Datum izdavanja:

11.6.2026.

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