Explanations are important to us in many contexts: in science, mathematics, philosophy, and also in everyday and juridical contexts. But what is an explanation?

Not all scientific explanations work by describing causal connections between events or the world's overall causal structure. In addition, mathematicians regard

A new approach for defining causality and such related notions as degree of responsibility, degrees of blame, and causal explanation. Causality plays a central

When you light a match it is the striking of it which causes the lighting; the presence of oxygen in the room is a background condition to the lighting. But in

In most academic and non-academic circles throughout history, the world and its operation have been viewed in terms of cause and effect. The principles of causa