Causation: a very short introduction

Why causation? The problem: what's the matter with causation?

Regularity: causation without connection?

Time and space: do causes occur before their effects?

Necessity: do causes guarantee their effects?

Counterfactual dependence: do causes make a difference? Physicalism: is it all transference?

Pluralism: is causation many different things?

Primitivism: is causation the most basic thing?

Dispositionalism: what tends to be?

Finding causes: where are they?