This is the first book length defence of a counterfactual theory of causation. The analysis defended is new. It expresses the idea that, independent of its competitors, a cause raises the chance of an ... 続きを読む
Not all scientific explanations work by describing causal connections between events or the world's overall causal structure. Some mathematical proofs explain why the theorems being proved hold. In th ... 続きを読む
This book is the first comprehensive attempt to solve what Hartry Field has called "the central problem in the metaphysics of causation": the problem of reconciling the need for causal notions in the ... 続きを読む
Some philosophers think physical explanations stand on their own: what happens, happens because things have the properties they do. Others think that any such explanation is incomplete: what happens i ... 続きを読む
Causation is at once familiar and mysterious. Many believe that the causal relation is not directly observable, but that we nevertheless can somehow detect its presence in the world. Common sense seem ... 続きを読む
Causation is at once familiar and mysterious. Many believe that the causal relation is not directly observable, but that we nevertheless can somehow detect its presence in the world. Common sense seem ... 続きを読む
Thought-provoking introduction to a core topic in philosophy
An engaging introduction to the key theories of causation and the surrounding debates and controversies
Explores the integral part c ... 続きを読む
Causation is now commonly supposed to involve a succession that instantiates some law-like regularity. Efficient Causation: A History examines how our modern notion developed from a very different und ... 続きを読む
Causation is everywhere in the world: it features in every science and technology. But how much do we truly understand it? Do we know what it means to say that one thing is a cause of another and do w ... 続きを読む
Helen Beebee; Christopher Hitchcock; Peter Menzies
ページ
806 ページ
フォーマット
Paperback
サイズ
171 x 247 mm
刊行日
2012年01月
シリーズ
Oxford Handbooks in Philosophy
Causation is a central topic in many areas of philosophy. In metaphysics, philosophers want to know what causation is, and how it is related to laws of nature, probability, action, and freedom of the ... 続きを読む
