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I. The Role of Causation in Moral and Legal Responsibility; 1 The Embedding of Causation in Legal Liability Doctrines; 2 Causation and Moral Blameworthiness; 3 Causation and the Permissibility of Consequentialist Justification within Agent-Relative Morality and the Law; II. Presuppositions about the Nature of Causation by Legal Doctrines; 4 The Law’s Own Characterizations of its Causal Requirements; 5 The Prima Facie Demands of the Law on the Concept of Causation; 6 Pruning the Law’s Demands on a Concept of Causation; III. The First Blind Alley: The Attempt to Replace Proximate Causation with Culpability as a Prerequisite for Legal Liability; 7 ’Negligence in the Air Will Not Do’; 8 Conceptual Problems in Applying the Harm-within-the- Risk Test to Crimes/Torts of Negligence; 9 Normative Problems in Applying the Harm-within-the- Risk Test to Crimes/Torts of Negligence; 10 The Descriptive Inaccuracy of the Harm-within-the- Risk Analysis as Measuring Proximate Causation; IV. The Legal Presupposition of There Being ’Intervening Causes’; 11 The Legal Doctrines of Intervening Causation; 12 The Lack of any Metaphysical Basis for the Doctrines of Intervening Causation; 13 The Superfluity of Accomplice Liability; V. The Metaphysics of Causal Relata; 14 A Prolegomenon to the Issue of Causal Relata; 15 The Facts, Events, States of Affairs, and Tropes Debate; VI. The Metaphysics of the Causal Relation; 16 Counterfactual Conditionals; 17 The Counterfactual Theory of Causation; 18 The Role of Counterfactual Dependence as an Independent, Non-causal Desert-determiner; 19 Generalist Theories of Causation; 20 Singularist Theories of Causation; Appendix; Contract Law and Causation: An Illustration; Bibliography

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