Causation by disconnection

The physical and/or intrinsic connection approach to causation has become p rominent in the recent literature, with Salmon, Dowe, Menzies, and Armstron g among its leading proponents. I show that there is a type of causation, c ausation by disconnection, with no physical or intrinsic connection between cause and effect. Only Hume-style conditions approaches and hybrid conditi ons-connections approaches appear to be able to handle causation by disconn ection. Some Hume-style, extrinsic, absence-relating, necessary and/or suff icient condition component of the causal relation proves to be needed.