Three Kinds of Causal Indeterminacy

Hoffmann-Kolss, Vera (2024). Three Kinds of Causal Indeterminacy (In Press). Australasian journal of philosophy Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group

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The goal of this paper is to argue that there is indeterminacy in causation. I present three types of cases in which it is indeterminate whether an event c caused another event e: (1) cases of absence causation recently discussed by Bernstein and by Swanson, (2) cases leading to Sorites paradoxes for causation, and (3) cases where c and e occur in certain indeterministic causal structures and it is therefore indeterminate whether there is a causal relation between them. These cases, I argue, provide strong evidence that indeterminacy is an important general feature of the causal relation and that philosophical theorizing about causation should take this observation into account.

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