Physical Causation

Klappentext This book, published in 2000, discusses in a systematic way, a positive account of causation. Zusammenfassung This book! published in 2000! discusses in a systematic way! a positive account of causation: the conserved quantities account of causal processes. It is an important book that will be widely discussed among philosophers and students working in contemporary metaphysics and philosophy of science! and also scientists with an interest in foundational issues. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgements; 1. Horses for courses: causation and the task of philosophy; 2. Hume's legacy: regularity, counterfactual and probabilistic theories of causation; 3. Transference theories of causation; 4. Process theories of causation; 5. The conserved quantity theory; 6. Prevention and omission; 7. Connecting causes and effects; 8. The direction of causation and backwards-in-time causation; References; Index.

Product details

• Authors: Phil Dowe, Phil (University of Tasmania) Dowe
• Assisted by: Ken Binmore (Editor), Brian Skyrms (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 03.07.2000
• EAN: 9780521780490
• ISBN: 978-0-521-78049-0
• No. of pages: 236
• Series: Cambridge Studies in Probabili
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Physics, astronomy > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Nature, technology > Astronomy: general, reference works