Causation, physics, and the constitution of reality : Russell's republic revisited / edited by Huw Price and Richard Corry.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Price, Huw, 1953- editor.

Corry, Richard, editor.

University of Sydney. Centre for Time.

Series:

Oxford scholarship online.

Oxford scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Causation--Congresses.

Causation.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (414 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Clarendon, 2023.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The difference between cause and effect seems obvious and crucial in ordinary life, yet missing modern physics. Almost a century ago, Bertrand Russell called the law of causality 'a relic of a bygone age'. Scholars revisit Russell's conclusion, discussing one of the most significant and puzzling issues in contemporary thought.

Contents:

A case for causal republicanism? / Huw Price and Richard Corry

Causation as folk science / John D. Norton

What Russell got right / Christopher Hitchcock

Causation with a human face / Jim Woodward

Isolation and folk physics / Adam Elga

Agency and causation / Arif Ahmed

Pragmatic causation / Antony Eagle

Causation in context / Peter Menzies

Hume on causation : the projectivist interpretation / Helen Beebee

Causal perspectivalism / Huw Price

Counterfactuals and the Second Law / Barry Loewer

The physical foundations of causation / Douglas Kutach

Causation, counterfactuals, and entropy / Mathias Frisch.

Notes:

Formerly CIP.

Collection of a conference on "Causal republicanism" organized by the Centre for Time of the University of Sydney, July, 2003.

Previously issued in print: 2007.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Derived record based on print version record and publisher information.

ISBN:

1-383-04232-2

0-19-151548-5

1-281-16478-X

9786611164782

1-4294-7087-9

OCLC:

476240412