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Causation and explanation /
"Stathis Psillos divides his account into three sections: causation, laws of nature, and explanation. He begins the causation section with Hume's classic "reductive" account and then focuses on the subsequent division between Humean and non-Humean accounts, examining topics such...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Montréal :
McGill-Queen's University Press,
[2002]
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| Colección: | Central problems of philosophy (Montréal, Québec)
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 1. Hume on causation
- 2. Regularities and singular causation
- 3. Causation and counterfactuals
- 4. Causation and mechanism
- 5. The regularity view of laws
- 6. Laws as relations among universals
- 7. Alternative approaches to laws
- 8. Deductive-nomological explanation
- 9. Statistical explanation
- 10. Explanation of labs
- 11. The metaphysics of explanation.