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PHILOSOPHICAL STUDIES
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DOI: 10.1007/s11098-023-02069-4
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Proportionality; The disjunction problem; Cohesion; Causation; Similarity structure
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This article discusses the concepts of proportionality and cohesion. The author explains cohesion in terms of the similarity structure of property-spaces and argues that alternative approaches based on naturalness, interventionism, and contrastivism are inadequate.
Proportionality-the idea that causes are neither too general nor too specific for their effects-seems to recommend implausibly disjunctive causes (McGrath, 1998; Shapiro & Sober, 2012; Franklin-Hall, 2016). I argue that this problem should be avoided by appeal to the notion of cohesion. I propose an account of cohesion in terms of the similarity structure of property-spaces, argue that it is not objectionably mysterious, and that alternative approaches-based on naturalness, interventionism, and contrastivism-are inadequate without appeal to it. In an appendix, I show how my proposal can be perspicuously formalized by adapting structural equation models.
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