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Making a difference : essays on the philosophy of causation / edited by Helen Beebee, Christopher Hitchcock, Huw Price.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Causation.
- Philosophy.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (viii, 336 pages) : illustrations
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Other Title:
- Essays on the philosophy of causation
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2017.
- Summary:
- 'Making a Difference' presents new essays on causation and counterfactuals by an international team of experts. The topics range from the semantics of counterfactuals and the context-sensitivity of causal claims, through mechanisms and structural equation models, to mental causation and free will.
- Contents:
- Introduction / Helen Beebee, Christopher Hitchcock, and Huw Price
- Causal counterfactuals and impossible worlds / Daniel Nolan
- Two interpretations of the Ramsey test / Rachael Briggs
- Pragmatic explanations of the proportionality constraint on causation / Cei Maslen
- Causation, intervention, and agency : Woodward on Menzies and Price / Huw Price
- The glue of the universe / David Braddon-Mitchell
- Actual causation: What's the use? / Christopher Hitchcock
- Can structural equations explain how mechanisms explain? / Nancy Cartwright
- The problem of counterfactual isomorphs / Peter Menzies
- Cause without default / Thomas Blanchard and Jonathan Schaffer
- Difference-making, closure and exclusion / Brad Weslake
- The program model, difference-makers, and the exclusion problem / Philip Pettit
- Intervening in the exclusion argument / James Woodward
- My brain made me do it : the exclusion argument against free will, and what's wrong with It / Christian List and Peter Menzies
- Epiphenomenalism for functionalists / Helen Beebee
- The consequence argument disarmed : an interventionist perspective / Peter Menzies.
- Notes:
- This edition previously issued in print: 2017.
- Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 0-19-180913-6
- 0-19-106391-6
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