One philosophical approach to Causation sees counterfactual dependence as the key to the explanation of causal facts: for example, events c (the cause) and e (the effect) both occur, but had c not occurred, e would not have occurred either.
The counterfactual analysis of Causation became a focus of philosophical debate after the 1973 publication of the late David Lewis\'s groundbreaking paper, Causation, which argues against the previously accepted regularity analysis and in favor of what h.
One philosophical approach to Causation sees counterfactual dependence as the key to the explanation of causal facts: for example, events c (the cause) and e (the effect) both occur, but had c not occurred, e would not have occurred either