VI. DEVIANT CAUSAL CHAINS

TN recent years, a lot of philosophical energy has -been spent on the problem of deviant causal chains.1 I intend to show that there is no such problem. What is a deviant causal chain? Are there really standards of propriety for causal chains? My question is rhetorical; the fact of the matter is that what have been called deviant causal chains are really inconvenient causal chains. They are causal chains which were thought to be counter instances to attempted definitions of ideological notions in causal terms. Chisholm invented the model for