A variety of causes

A variety of causes / Paul Noordhof.

This is the first book length defence of a counterfactual theory of causation. The analysis defended is new. It expresses the idea that, independent of its competitors, a cause raises the chance of an effect over its mean background chance by a complete causal chain. The analysis depends upon a nove...

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Main Author: Noordhof, Paul, 1965- (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford, United Kingdom : Oxford University Press, 2020.
Subjects:
Causation.
Causation
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Table of Contents:
  • The analysis of causation
  • Humean supervenience and the possibility of necessitation
  • Counterfactuals and closeness
  • A counterfactual analysis of causation
  • The non-transitivity of causation
  • Causal circumstances
  • The ontological categories of causes
  • Negative causation and the relationality of causation
  • Property causation
  • Non-causal counterfactual dependence and intrinsicality
  • Processes and prevention
  • Causal non-symmetry
  • Agency, intervention, and the past
  • Causation and laws
  • The ontology of chance
  • Humean supervenience and possible worlds

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