Journal article
Causation and the law: Preemption, lawful sufficiency, and causal sufficiency
Law and contemporary problems, Vol.64(4), pp.83-105
10/01/2001
DOI: 10.2307/1192292
Abstract
This article briefly describes the normative/nonnormative distinction, and how one might invoke this distinction to locate a nonnormative dimension of actual causation. After briefly introducing Richard Wright's concept of a necessary element in a set of conditions for an effect, the article notes ambiguities in the critical concepts of necessity and sufficiency that he deploys. The article suggests the most plausible interpretation of Wright's use of different modal concepts.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Causation and the law: Preemption, lawful sufficiency, and causal sufficiency
- Creators
- Richard FumertonKen Kress
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- Law and contemporary problems, Vol.64(4), pp.83-105
- Publisher
- Duke University School of Law
- DOI
- 10.2307/1192292
- ISSN
- 0023-9186
- eISSN
- 1945-2322
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 10/01/2001
- Academic Unit
- Philosophy
- Record Identifier
- 9984398526002771
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