Causes and Coincidences

Klappentext David Owens offers alternative solutions to the problems still confronting theorists of causation. Zusammenfassung In an important departure from theories of causation! David Owens challenges the ideas of Hume! Davidson and Lewis! and offers alternative solutions to the problems still confronting theorists of causation. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface; Introduction; 1. The inexplicability of a coincidence; 2. Causes and laws; 3. Events and non-causal explanations; 4. Causal explanation; 5. The direction of causal explanation; 6. Levels of causation; 7. Deviant causal chains; 8. Causation in action; Conclusion: whither causal realism?; Bibliography; Index.

Product details

• Authors: Owens David, David Owens
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 29.11.2007
• EAN: 9780521044486
• ISBN: 978-0-521-04448-6
• No. of pages: 204
• Series: Cambridge Studies in Philosoph
• Subject: Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works