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.

• /analysis contains data and a do file for analysis with Stata (version 14.2).
• /pilot contains files from the pilot study created with LimeSurvey (version 4.1.18+200416), using the theme extends_vanilla.
• /preprint contains the Philosophy of Science preprint.¹
• /slides contains slides from presentations on the topic, also spanning the work of Livengood and Sytsma² as well as Bauer and Romann.³
• /study contains files from the study created with LimeSurvey (version 4.1.18+200416), using the theme extends_vanilla.

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) ↩