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Causation, physics, and the constitution of reality : Russell's republic revisited /
The difference between cause and effect seems obvious and crucial in ordinary life, yet missing from modern physics. Almost a century ago, Bertrand Russell called the law of causality 'a relic of a bygone age'. In this important collection 13 leading scholars revisit Russell's revolut...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
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Oxford : New York :
Clarendon Press ; Oxford University Press,
2007.
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Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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.