ABSTRACT
This chapter contains a very brief introduction to causation, perhaps just framing an issue, followed by an example. It is followed by a short discussion and then a series of questions. One very simple and intuitive thought on causation is to say that an event, c, is the cause of another event, e, if and only if both c and e occur, and had c not occurred, then e would not have, either. The example presents a case where a girl throws the ball at the window. It strikes the window. Her throwing the ball is the cause of the window breaking. The questions are intended to get the philosophy students thinking about this problems. They have used these kinds of questions in seminars as the questions set for seminars. The chapter also gives a cursory sketch of some of the ways in which philosophers have responded to the thought experiment.
