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Peter Menzies (philosopher)
Peter Charles Menzies (5 Feb 1953 – 6 Feb 2015) was an Australian philosopher and past president of the Australasian Association of Philosophy, who held teaching positions at Macquarie University, University of Sydney, and Australian National University.[1] He specialized in metaphysics, especially the philosophy of causation.[2][3] He became a fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities in 2007.[1] Menzies was a student of Nancy Cartwright at Stanford University where he received his PhD in 1984.[4] He and philosopher Huw Price developed a version of Agency Theory of Causation, which is statement of manipulability theory of causation. In this view, human actors play an important role in cause and effect.[5] References
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