Kripke and Hilary Putnam also defended an analogous causal account of natural kind terms.
When scientists ask why something happens, they are asking for a general causal account.
There is a perfectly fine causal account of Gertrude and her maiden flight.
Organismic processes for neo-Piagetian theories: A dialectical causal account of cognitive development.
It attempts to provide a historical and causal account of the origins of our consciousness, something excluded or "bracketed" in Husserl's earlier works.
Agent(substance)-causal accounts have been suggested by both George Berkeley and Thomas Reid.
James claimed that such a theory was incoherent, since no causal physical account could be given of how distributed proto-experiences would 'combine'.
I too know the risks, including the common claim that we can always in principle translate from "intentional talk" to the fully predictive causal account of the events in question.
Unlike less austere behaviorism, it does not accept private events such as thinking, perceptions, and unobservable emotions in a causal account of an organism's behavior:
More importantly, however, the suggested causal account of justification is false because it denies the possibility that a false belief be justified.