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Informationen zum Autor Helen Beebee is Professor of Philosophy at the University of BirminghamChristopher Hitchcock is Professor of Philosophy at the California Institute of TechnologyPeter Menzies is Professor of Philosophy at Macquarie University, Sydney Klappentext Causation is a central topic in many areas of philosophy, including metaphysics, epistemology, philosophy of mind, ethics, history of philosophy, and philosophy of science. Thirty-seven specially written chapters by some of the world's leading philosophers provide the most comprehensive critical guide available to issues surrounding causation. Zusammenfassung Causation is a central topic in many areas of philosophy, including metaphysics, epistemology, philosophy of mind, ethics, history of philosophy, and philosophy of science. Thirty-seven specially written chapters by some of the world's leading philosophers provide the most comprehensive critical guide available to issues surrounding causation. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction 1: Sarah Broadie: The Ancient Greeks 2: John Marenbon: The Medievals 3: Kenneth Clatterbaugh: The Early Moderns 4: Don Garrett: Hume 5: Eric Watkins: Kant 6: Michael Stöltzner: The Logical Empiricists 7: Stathis Psillos: Regularity Theories 8: L.A. Paul: Counterfactual Theories 9: Jon Williamson: Probabilistic Theories 10: Phil Dowe: Causal Process Theories 11: James Woodward: Agency and Interventionist Theories 12: Stephen Mumford: Causal Powers and Capacities 13: John Carroll: Anti-Reductionism 14: Christopher Hitchcock: Causal Modelling 15: Stuart Glennan: Mechanisms 16: Peter Godfrey-Smith: Causal Pluralism 17: Peter Menzies: Platitudes and Counterexamples 18: Michael Tooley: Causes, Laws and Ontology 19: Douglas Ehring: Causal Relata 20: Huw Price and Brad Weslake: The Time-Asymmetry of Causation 21: David Danks: The Psychology of Causal Perception and Reasoning 22: Helen Beebee: Causation and Observation 23: Clark Glymour: Causation and Statistical Inference 24: Cei Maslen, Terry Horgan and Helen Daly: Mental Causation 25: Alfred Mele: Causation, Action, and Free Will 26: Carolina Sartorio: Causation and Ethics 27: Ram Neta: Causal Theories of Knowledge and Perception 28: Frank Jackson: Causation and Semantic Content 29: Peter Lipton: Causation and Explanation 30: Paul Humphreys: Causation and Reduction 31: Marc Lange: Causation in Classical Mechanics 32: Lawrence Sklar: Causation in Statistical Mechanics 33: Richard Healey: Causation in Quantum Mechanics 34: Carl Hoefer: Causation in Spacetime Theories 35: Samir Okasha: Causation in Biology 36: Harold Kincaid: Causation in the Social Sciences 37: Jane Stapleton: Causation in the Law ...
