Conceptual Causal Pluralism

I will set out to examine the relationship between the methodology of philosophy of causality and the kind of account given. I will distinguish the five philosophical questions of causality (metaphysics, semantics, epistemology, methodology and use) and the five scientific problems of causality (explanation, prediction, control, inference and reasoning). I will argue that the five philosophical questions of causality should be approached in an integrated way, and argue that the aim of assisting with the five scientific problems of causality leads us to a thoroughgoing conceptual causal pluralism.