ABSTRACT
This chapter continues the discussion of singular causation: the causation of this or that particular event as opposed to generic causation, which obtains between event-types or variables. A number of philosophers believe that singular causation is primary, analytically more basic than generic causation: Elizabeth Anscombe ([1971] 1992), Nancy Cartwright (1989), David Lewis (1973a, 2001) and his followers (Collins, Hall, and Paul 2004), and Wolfgang Spohn (2006). I am not concerned with these conceptual or metaphysical questions here (see the previous chapters) but rather return to the epistemic question: how do we learn about singular causes?
