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Cause and chance : causation in an indeterministic world / edited by Phil Dowe and Paul Noordhof.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- International library of philosophy.
- International library of philosophy
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Causation.
- Physical Description:
- viii, 211 p. : ill.
- Place of Publication:
- London ; New York : Routledge, 2004.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Philosophers have long been fascinated by the connection between cause and effect: are 'causes' things we can experience, or are they concepts provided by our minds? The study of causation goes back to Aristotle, but resurged with David Hume and Immanuel Kant, and is now one of the most important topics in metaphysics. Most of the recent work done in this area has attempted to place causation in a deterministic, scientific, worldview. But what about the unpredictable and chancey world we actually live in: can one theory of causation cover all instances of cause and effect? Cause and Chance: Causation in an Indeterministic World is a collection of specially written papers by world-class metaphysicians. Its focus is the problem facing the 'reductionist' approach to causation: the attempt to cover all types of causation, deterministic and indeterministic, with one basic theory. Contributors: Stephen Barker, Helen Beebee, Phil Dowe, Dorothy Edgington, Doug Ehring, Chris Hitchcock, Igal Kwart, Paul Noordhof, Murali Ramachandran and Michael Tooley.
- Contents:
- Counterfactuals and the benefit of hindsight / Dorothy Edgington
- Chance-lowering causes / Phil Dowe
- Chance-changing causal processes / Helen Beebee
- Counterfactual theories, preemption, and persistence / Douglas Ehring
- Probability and causation / Michael Tooley
- Analysing chancy causation without appeal to chance-raising / Stephen Barker
- Routes, processes, and chance-lowering causes / Christopher Hitchcock
- Interdeterministic causation and varieties of chance-raising / Murali Ramachandran
- Probabilistic cause, edge conditions, late preemption, and discrete cases / Igal Kvart
- Prospects for a counterfactual theory of causation / Paul Noordhof.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [203]-207) and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-134-41926-0
- 1-134-41927-9
- 0-415-30098-3
- 1-280-02486-0
- 0-203-49466-0
- 9780203494660
- OCLC:
- 54494300
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