无需造成差异的“差异制造”：Andreas & Günther 七种实际因果定义的批判性分析
Difference-Making without Making a Difference
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Sander Beckers 分析 Andreas & Günther 系列七篇论文提出的七种实际因果（actual causation）定义，这些定义曾被归为事实性差异制造、反事实差异制造和基于规律性三类相互竞争的进路。
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Abstract:Over a series of seven papers, Andreas & Günther have introduced seven definitions of actual causation and have classified them as belonging to three different, competing, types of accounts: factual difference-making, counterfactual difference-making, and regularity-based. I show that their most recent -- factual difference-making -- definition instantiates all three types, thereby proving that these are distinctions without a difference. I further compare their novel account to the other six accounts on several crucial examples, revealing that this undermines all seven of their accounts.
| Comments: | Accepted for publication in the Journal of Mathematical Philosophy |
| Subjects: | Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI) |
| Cite as: | arXiv:2606.24832 [cs.AI] |
| (or arXiv:2606.24832v2 [cs.AI] for this version) | |
| https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2606.24832 arXiv-issued DOI via DataCite |
Submission history
From: Sander Beckers [view email]
[v1]
Tue, 23 Jun 2026 17:15:26 UTC (38 KB)
[v2]
Thu, 29 Oct 2026 15:10:39 UTC (14 KB)
来源：arXiv cs.AI · arxiv.org