Review of "Causation: A User's Guide"

In the past few decades, causation has been the object of increasing philosophical debate involving epistemology, metaphysics, philosophy of science, philosophy of mind, and also philosophical reflections over specific disciplinary fields – e.g. philosophy of physics, biology, law, the social sciences. L.A. Paul and Ned Hall have played a large part in this debate, with a number of contributions – plus the (2004) volume edited with John Collins – focusing in particular on the relation between causation and counterfactuals, and the merits and limits of counterfactual analyses of causation. Causation: A User’s Guide disentangles a number of hard issues arising from contemporary accounts of the nature of causation, and aims to shed light on the intricate web of – sometimes conflicting – intuitions on causation we nurture.