Causation : a user's guide

Causation : a user's guide / L.A. Paul and Ned Hall.

Causation is at once familiar and mysterious - we can detect its presence in the world, but we cannot agree on the metaphysics of the causal relation. L.A. Paul and Ned Hall guide the reader through the most important philosophical treatments of causation, and develop a broad and sophisticated under...

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Main Authors: Paul, L. A. (Laurie Ann), 1966- (Author), Hall, Edward J. (Edward Jonathan), 1966- (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2013.
Subjects:
Causation.
Philosophy, Modern.
PHILOSOPHY > Epistemology.
Causation
Philosophy, Modern
Kausalität
Causaliteit.
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Table of Contents:
  • Cover; Contents; Preface; Annotated list of figures; The scope and aims of this 'guide'; 1. Introduction; 2. Some remarks on method; 3. Overview of the project; 2. Framework and preliminaries; 1. Framework; 2. The rival approaches; 3. Methodological redux; 4. Topics not addressed in detail; 3. Varieties of redundant causation; 1. Joint effects; 2. Early preemption; 3. Tampering; 4. Late preemption; 5. Overdetermination; 6. Black-box cases; 7. The lessons of redundant causation; 4. Causation involving omissions""
  • 1. Three kinds of cases; 2. The question of uniform treatment; 3. Trouble with causation involving omissions; 4. Methodology yet again; 5. Accommodating omission-involving causation; 5. Cases that threaten transitivity; 1. Double prevention; 2. Switching; 6. Concluding remarks; 1. A deep divide; 2. The method by counterexample; 3. The causal method; 4. Cognate debates; References; Index of names; Subject index.

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