Cause and Chance - Causation in an Indeterministic World

"Cause and Chance" is a collection of specially written papers by world-class metaphysicians. Its focus is the problems facing the "reductionist" approach to causation: the attempt to cover all types of causation, deterministic and indeterministic, with one basic theory.

List of contents

Dorothy Edgington, Phil Dowe, Helen Beebee, Douglas Ehring, Michael Tooley, Steve Barker, Chris Hitchcock,
M. Ramachandran, Igal Kvart, Paul Noordhof

About the author

Dowe, Phil; Noordhof, Paul

Summary

Cause and Chance: Causation in an Indeterministic World is a collection of specially written papers by world-class metaphysicians. Its focus are the problems facing the 'reductionist' approach to causation.

Product details

• Authors: Phil Dowe, Dowe Phil, Paul Noordhof, Noordhof Paul
• Assisted by: the editors (Introduction)
• Publisher: Taylor and Francis
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 23.10.2003
• EAN: 9780415300988
• ISBN: 978-0-415-30098-8
• No. of pages: 224
• Dimensions: 156 mm x 234 mm x 19 mm
• Weight: 570 g
• Series: International Library of Philosophy
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Natural sciences (general); Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works; PHILOSOPHY / General, PHILOSOPHY / Metaphysics, Philosophy of Science, Philosophy: metaphysics & ontology, Philosophy: metaphysics and ontology, Philosophy: epistemology and theory of knowledge