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Causation and persistence : a theory of causation / Douglas Ehring.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Ehring, Douglas, 1952- author.
- Series:
- Oxford scholarship online.
- Oxford scholarship online
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Causation.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (202 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- New York ; Oxford University Press, 2023.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- The author shows the inadequacy of received theories of causation, and, introducing conceptual devices of his own, provides an account of causation as the persistence over time of individual properties or "tropes.".
- Contents:
- 1. Preemption
- 2. The Significance of Preemption
- 3. Causal Relata
- 4. Qualitative Persistence
- 5. The Alphabet of Causation
- 6. Causal Asymmetry.
- Notes:
- Previously issued in print: 1997.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 181-184) and index.
- Derived record based on print version record and publisher information.
- ISBN:
- 0-19-773004-3
- 1-280-52903-2
- 0-19-535534-2
- 1-4294-0022-6
- OCLC:
- 191935370
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