Quasi-Interventionism

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Jared Millson (Agnes Scott College), Kareem Khalifa (Middlebury College), Gabe Doble (Harvard Law School)

A growing consensus holds that all explanations, causal or otherwise, support change-relating (CR) counterfactuals. Unfortunately, this proposal, which we call CR-monism, has not been precisely defined. In this paper, we fill this lacuna by providing a detailed articulation of CR-monism dubbed "quasi-interventionism." While no extant account of CR-monism, not even our own, manages to provide genuinely sufficient conditions on explanations, we argue that quasi-interventionism is both plausible and preferable to alternatives insofar as it supplies necessary conditions that are logically stronger than any currently available.

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NKDR452
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Agnes Scott College
Middlebury College
Harvard Law School
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