Australian philosopher who developed the conserved quantity (CQ) theory of causation — replacing Salmon's mark transmission criterion with the transmission of conserved physical quantities.
Conserved quantity theory: a causal process is a world line of an object that possesses a conserved quantity; a causal interaction is an intersection of world lines involving exchange of conserved quantities. This grounds causation in physics without circularity.
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