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  1. Thing causation.Nathaniel Baron-Schmitt - 2024 - Noûs 58 (4):1050-1072.
    According to orthodoxy, the most fundamental kind of causation involves one event causing another event. I argue against this event‐causal view. Instead, the most fundamental kind of causation is thing causation, which involves a thing causing a thing to do something. Event causation is reducible to thing causation, but thing causation is not reducible to event causation, because event causation cannot accommodate cases of fine‐grained causation. I defend my view from objections, including C. D. Broad's influential “timing” argument, and I (...)
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  • Some Attitudes We Usually Don't Have.Daniel Drucker - forthcoming - Philosophy and Phenomenological Research.
    I present a new attitude puzzle involving disjunction. Specifically, though it can sound strange to ascribe the belief that ϕ or ψ when ⌜ϕ⌝ and ⌜ψ⌝ are about very different subject-matters, we can assure ourselves that the strangeness is merely pragmatic because of the alethic properties of disjunction. But frustration- and other non-doxastic attitude-ascriptions also sound very strange. Are the corresponding frustratingness, etc. properties of disjunction the same as with truth? I will argue that they are not: frustratingness and desirability, (...)
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