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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Paul, L. A. (Laurie Ann), 1966- author.

Hall, Edward J. (Edward Jonathan), 1966- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Causation.

Philosophy, Modern.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xxii, 277 pages) : illustrations

Other Title:

User's guide

Place of Publication:

Oxford University Press 2013

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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 understanding of the issues under debate.

Contents:

The scope and aims of this 'guide" : Introduction ; Some remarks on method ; Overview of the project

Framework and preliminaries : Framework ; The rival approaches ; Methodological redux ; Topics not addressed in detail

Varieties of redundant causation : Joint effects ; Early preemption ; Tampering ; Late preemption ; Overdetermination ; Black-box case ; The lessons of redundant causation

Causation involving omissions : Three kinds of cases ; The question of uniform treatment ; Trouble with causation involving omissions ; Methodology yet again ; Accommodating omission-involving causation

Cases that threaten transitivity : Double prevention ; Switching

Concluding remarks : A deep divide ; The method by counterexample ; The causal method ; Cognate debates.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on Apr. 29, 2013).

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

0-19-175189-8

0-19-165439-6

OCLC:

922971948