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    Late preemption does not require the cause to affect the ... — Carmelics
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    Late preemption does not require the cause to affect the timing of the effect at all; the effect may occur at exactly the same time regardless.

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    • 1.Quentin's case can be modified so that, had he not received chemotherapy, he would have died at exactly the same time he actually died.
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    • 2.This modified case still satisfies the structural conditions for late preemption.
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    • 3.Therefore, the timing differential between actual and counterfactual effects is not an essential feature of late preemption.
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    • 1.Lewis's original counterfactual analysis requires that effects counterfactually depend on their causes, meaning the effect would not have occurred without the cause.
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    • 2.If the effect occurs at exactly the same time regardless of which process produces it, no counterfactual dependence obtains between cause and effect.
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    • 3.Without counterfactual dependence or a connecting chain of such dependence, Lewis's framework cannot distinguish the preempting cause from the preempted backup.
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    • 1.Ned Hall's distinction between 'dependence' and 'production' accounts of causation entails that same-time preemption collapses the two accounts into indistinguishability.
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    • 2.When timing cannot differentiate the actual causal process from the counterfactual one, process-tracing accounts like Dowe's conserved quantity theory must do the explanatory work Lewis's account cannot.
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    • 3.Relying on process-tracing to resolve same-time preemption concedes that pure counterfactual analyses are insufficient for cases Lewis himself designed the framework to handle.
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    Many cases of late preemption are cases in which the cause hastens the effect. That is, had the cause been absent, the effect—or, in any case, something very similar to the effect—would have happened later than it actually did. But this isn’t an essential feature of the case. Consider the following: Quentin is given chemotherapy to fight his cancer. The chemotherapy compromises his immune system, and after catching a flu, Quentin dies from pneumonia. It is easy to suppose that the chemotherapy p
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