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.

Table des matières

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

A propos de l'auteur

Dowe, Phil; Noordhof, Paul

Résumé

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.

Détails du produit

• Auteurs: Phil Dowe, Dowe Phil, Paul Noordhof, Noordhof Paul
• Collaboration: the editors (Introduction)
• Edition: Taylor and Francis
• Langues: Anglais
• Format d'édition: Livre Relié
• Sortie: 23.10.2003
• EAN: 9780415300988
• ISBN: 978-0-415-30098-8
• Pages: 224
• Dimensions: 156 mm x 234 mm x 19 mm
• Poids: 570 g
• Thème: International Library of Philosophy
• Catégories: Littérature spécialisée > Philosophie, religion > Philosophie: général, ouvrages de référence; Sciences humaines, art, musique > Philosophie > Général, dictionnaires; Sciences naturelles, médecine, informatique, technique > Sciences naturelles en général; PHILOSOPHY / General, PHILOSOPHY / Metaphysics, Philosophy of Science, Philosophy: metaphysics & ontology, Philosophy: metaphysics and ontology, Philosophy: epistemology and theory of knowledge