"Trumping" poses problems for accounts of this phenomenon, since it's a specific form of (*) pre-emption.
Jonathan Schaffer challenged one account of this phenomenon with the "wizards case," involving both Merlin and Morgana turning a prince into a frog. Different views of the relata involved in this phenomenon argue that they are events, facts, features, tropes, or aspects. "Trumping" poses problems for accounts of this phenomenon, since it's a specific form of (*) pre-emption. Thanks to the influence of David Lewis, modern analytic philosophers often refer to this phenomenon in terms of counterfactuals. Kant defined this phenomenon as a category or pure concept of the understanding in an "answer" to David Hume's attack on the connection between it and effect. For 10 points, name this concept in which one thing happens after and as a result of another thing.
Jonathan Schaffer challenged one account of this phenomenon with the "wizards case," involving both Merlin and Morgana turning a prince into a frog.
causality [accept word forms like causation]