Hitchcocks (2001) treatment of singular and general causation
Hitchcock (2001a) argues that the distinction between singular and general causation conflates the two distinctions actual causation vs. causal tendencies and wide vs. narrow causation. Based on a recent regularity account of causation I will show that Hitchcocks introduction of the two distinctions is an unnecessary multiplication of causal concepts.
general causation causal claims philosophy of science regularity theory singular causation