ABSTRACT
In this chapter, the author demonstrates that causation is also irreflexive, transitive, and well-founded. Obtaining causal relations back successful causal explanations. However, causal explanation is irreflexive, because explanation is irreflexive. Non-mathematical explanations, generally, are irreflexive. Causal explanations are therefore irreflexive, since causal explanation is a species of non-mathematical explanation. There are more extravagant physical interpretations of various theories that would appear to allow for time travel of some kind as well, but if those fully interpreted theories likewise allow for causal loops, they will also generate violations of formal asymmetry. The causal model approaches are theories of certain facets of causation that exploit models of causal structure to illucidate and describe those facets. The author follows the important book Realism Regained by Robert Koons. In that work, Koons proffered a very interesting argument for the well-foundedness of the causal relation, which depended upon the universality of causation.
