ISBN:
9780262270663
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0262270668
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1417560371
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9781417560370
Language:
English
Pages:
1 online resource (viii, 481 p.)
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ill
Series Statement:
Representation and mind
Series Statement:
EBSCOhost eBook Collection
Parallel Title:
Print version Causation and counterfactuals
Keywords:
Causation
;
Counterfactuals (Logic)
;
Causation
;
Electronic books
;
Causation.
;
Counterfactuals (Logic)
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PHILOSOPHY ; Epistemology
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Causation
;
Counterfactuals (Logic)
;
Irrealer Konditionalsatz
;
Kausalität
;
Philosophie
;
Electronic books.
;
Electronic books
;
Electronic books
;
Aufsatzsammlung
;
Kausalität
;
Irrealer Konditionalsatz
;
Philosophie
Abstract:
Counterfactuals and causation : history, problems, and prospects / John Collins, Ned Hall, and L.A. Paul -- Trumping preemption / Jonathan Schaffer -- Causation as influence / David Lewis -- Preemptive prevention / John Collins -- Advertisement for a sketch of an outline of a prototheory of causation / Stephen Yablo -- Difference-making in context / Peter Menzies -- Causation and the price of transitivity / Ned Hall -- Aspect causation / L.A. Paul -- Two concepts of causation / Ned Hall -- Void and object / David Lewis -- Causing and nothingness / Helen Beebee -- For facts as causes and effects / D.H. Mellor -- Preempting preemption / David Coady -- Causes, contrasts, and the nontransitivity of causation / Cei Maslen -- Causation : probabilistic and counterfactual analyses / Igal Kvart -- A counterfactual analysis of indeterministic causation / Murali Ramachandran -- Do all and only causes raise the probabilities of effects? / Christopher Hitchcock -- Causation, counterfactuals, and the third factor / Tim Maudlin -- Going through the open door again : counterfactual versus singularist theories of causation / D.M Armstrong
Description / Table of Contents:
Counterfactuals and causation : history, problems, and prospects / John Collins, Ned Hall, and L.A. Paul -- Trumping preemption / Jonathan Schaffer -- Causation as influence / David Lewis -- Preemptive prevention / John Collins -- Advertisement for a sketch of an outline of a prototheory of causation / Stephen Yablo -- Difference-making in context / Peter Menzies -- Causation and the price of transitivity / Ned Hall -- Aspect causation / L.A. Paul -- Two concepts of causation / Ned Hall -- Void and object / David Lewis -- Causing and nothingness / Helen Beebee -- For facts as causes and effects / D.H. Mellor -- Preempting preemption / David Coady -- Causes, contrasts, and the nontransitivity of causation / Cei Maslen -- Causation : probabilistic and counterfactual analyses / Igal Kvart -- A counterfactual analysis of indeterministic causation / Murali Ramachandran -- Do all and only causes raise the probabilities of effects? / Christopher Hitchcock -- Causation, counterfactuals, and the third factor / Tim Maudlin -- Going through the open door again : counterfactual versus singularist theories of causation / D.M Armstrong
Description / Table of Contents:
Counterfactuals and causation : history, problems, and prospects / John Collins, Ned Hall, and L.A. PaulTrumping preemption / Jonathan Schaffer -- Causation as influence / David Lewis -- Preemptive prevention / John Collins -- Advertisement for a sketch of an outline of a prototheory of causation / Stephen Yablo -- Difference-making in context / Peter Menzies -- Causation and the price of transitivity / Ned Hall -- Aspect causation / L.A. Paul -- Two concepts of causation / Ned Hall -- Void and object / David Lewis -- Causing and nothingness / Helen Beebee -- For facts as causes and effects / D.H. Mellor -- Preempting preemption / David Coady -- Causes, contrasts, and the nontransitivity of causation / Cei Maslen -- Causation : probabilistic and counterfactual analyses / Igal Kvart -- A counterfactual analysis of indeterministic causation / Murali Ramachandran -- Do all and only causes raise the probabilities of effects? / Christopher Hitchcock -- Causation, counterfactuals, and the third factor / Tim Maudlin -- Going through the open door again : counterfactual versus singularist theories of causation / D.M Armstrong.
Note:
"A Bradford book."
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Description based on print version record
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [459]-467) and indexes
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Causation and counterfactuals
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