Australian philosopher who has contributed to the analysis of causation, defended the A-theory of time, and argued for a permissive view of abortion.
Causation: defended a probabilistic theory of causation grounded in nomic relationships between types of events. Time, Tense, and Causation: defended the growing block theory of time — past and present exist, but the future does not. His early paper on abortion (1972) defined the abortion debate in analytic ethics.
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