Poisoned Babies, Shot Fathers, and Ruined Experiments

This is a repository for the paper “Poisoned Babies, Shot Fathers, and Ruined Experiments” by Stephan Kornmesser and me, published in Philosophy of Science.¹

• The Philosophy of Science preprint is available in /preprint.
• Data can be found in /analysis, along with a do file for analysis with Stata (version 14.2).
• The study was created with LimeSurvey (version 4.1.18+200416), using the theme extends_vanilla. Respective files can be found in /limesurvey.
• Slides from a presentation on the topic – also spanning the work of Livengood and Sytsma² as well as Bauer and Romann³ – are available in /slides.

Footnotes

1. Bauer, Alexander Max, and Stephan Kornmesser (2023): “Poisoned Babies, Shot Fathers, and Ruined Experiments. Experimental Evidence in Favor of the Compositionality Constraint of Actual Causation”. Philosophy of Science 90 (3), 489–517. (Link) ↩

2. Livengood, Jonathan, and Justin Sytsma (2020): “Actual Causation and Compositionality”. Philosophy of Science 87 (1), 43–69. (Link) ↩

3. Bauer, Alexander Max, and Jan Romann (2022): “Answers at Gunpoint. On Livengood and Sytsma’s Revolver Case”. Philosophy of Science 89 (1), 180–192. (Link) ↩