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Against Lewis’s New Theory of Causation: A Story with Three Morals Michael Strevens Pacific Philosophical Quarterly, 84:4, pp. 398–412 (2003) Abstract A recent paper by David Lewis, “Causation as Influence”, provides a new theory of causation. This paper presents an argument against the theory, using a series of counterexamples that are, I think, of independent interest to philosophers of causation. I argue that (a) the relation asserted by a claim of the form