There is another one, but I'm far far away from my office for the next many 
weeks and can't look it up easily but it was an American Psychologist 
publication about 20 years ago that detailed the roots of psychology's 
definition of causation. It was really nicely written, at least as I remember 
reading it many year ago.

Maybe another tipster remembers and can post it to the others.

Annette

Quoting Scott Lilienfeld <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:

> A great paper that addresses this question, as well as the question of 
> "types" of causality in psychology and other social sciences (including 
> the Mackie "INUS" condition discussed earlier),  is:
> 
> Meehl, P. E. (1997) Specific etiology and other forms of  strong 
> inference: Some quantitative meanings.  Journal of Medicine and 
> Philosophy, 2, 33-53.
> 
>     I could not locate a copy of this paper on the Web, but it might be 
> lurking around somewhere. 
> 
> ....Scott
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Annette Kujawski Taylor, Ph. D.
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