Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy A | B | C | D | E | F | G | H | I | J | K | L | M | N | O | P | Q | R | S | T | U | V | W | X | Y | Z Causal Processes Taking their point of departure from what science tells us about the world rather than from our everyday concept of a process, philosophers interested in analysing causal processes have tended to see the chief task to be to distinguish causal ...