Original scientific paper
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
Abstract
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.
Keywords
actual causation; but-for test; HR causation; Law and Economics movements; probability exhaustion; type causation
Hrčak ID:
347719
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Publication date:
11.6.2026.
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