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The Facts of Causation.
Everything we do relies on causation. We eat and drink because this causes us to stay alive. Courts tell us who causes crimes, criminology tell us what causes people to commit them. D.H. Mellor shows us that to understand the world and our lives we must understand causation. The Facts of Causation,...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Hoboken :
Taylor and Francis,
2013.
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| Colección: | International library of philosophy.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
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| 520 | |a Everything we do relies on causation. We eat and drink because this causes us to stay alive. Courts tell us who causes crimes, criminology tell us what causes people to commit them. D.H. Mellor shows us that to understand the world and our lives we must understand causation. The Facts of Causation, now available in paperback, is essential reading for students and for anyone interested in reading one of the ground-breaking theories in metaphysics. We cannot understand the world and our place in it without understanding causation. Yet a complete account of the nature and implication. | ||
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| 505 | 0 | |a Cover; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Preface; Introduction; 1 Deterministic causation; 1 Singular and general causation; 2 Two sorts of cause; 3 Causation's incomplete truth table; 4 Deterministic causation; 5 Causal conditionals; 6 Strict conditionals; 7 Closest-world conditionals; 2 The chances of effects; 1 Chances; 2 The chances of an effect; 3 Closest-world chances; 4 Chance, sufficiency and necessity; 3 Interpretations of probability; 1 Probability and necessity; 2 Credence; 3 Evidential probability; 4 Frequency; 4 Chance; 1 The conditions on chance | |
| 505 | 8 | |a 2 Frequencies and credences3 What chance is; 4 Chances and propensities; 5 Indeterministic causation; 1 Radioactivity; 2 Hidden variables; 3 The irrelevance of hidden variables; 4 The connotations of causation; 5 Evidence; 6 Explanation; 7 Conclusion; 6 Raising the chances of effects; 1 The limits of indeterminism; 2 Causes as evidence; 3 The evidence of our senses; 4 Explanation and inference; 5 Explanation and necessity; 7 Causes as means; 1 The means-end connotation; 2 Valuations and utilities; 3 Means and ends; 4 Means and mean utilities; 5 Causes as means to ends | |
| 505 | 8 | |a 6 The limitations of mean utility8 Degrees of effectiveness; 1 Connotations that come by degrees; 2 More or less evidence; 3 Better and worse explanations; 4 More or less useful means; 5 More or less effective causes; 6 Overdetermination; 7 Overdetermination and mental causation; 9 Factual causes and effects; 1 Iterated causation; 2 The initial case for facts; 3 The identity of facts; 4 The argument that causation links all facts or none; 5 How causation can link facts; 6 Facts and events; 10 Events; 1 Events and things; 2 The temporal parts of events; 3 The identity of events | |
| 505 | 8 | |a 4 Events and changes5 Davidson's argument for events; 6 Events for the sake of argument; 11 Particular causes and effects; 1 Causation and causal explanation; 2 Negative causes and effects; 3 Existential and particular causes and effects; 4 Facts first?; 12 Affecting particulars; 1 Causing and affecting; 2 Essential and inessential facts; 3 Identity criteria; 4 How particulars cause and affect each other; 5 Opaque causation; 6 Transparent causation; 7 Transparent and factual causation; 13 Causal relations; 1 The case for a relation of causation | |
| 505 | 8 | |a 2 Properties and relations, predicates and concepts3 Causation between particulars; 4 Facts and facta; 5 Facta as causes and effects; 6 The facta of causation; 14 Causal facta; 1 Propensities and properties; 2 Properties and laws; 3 The facta of propensity; 4 Causal structures; 5 The structure of causal facta; 15 Properties; 1 Universals; 2 Facta and laws; 3 Laws and law statements; 4 Laws and properties; 5 Nominalism; 6 Identifying properties; 7 Complex properties; 16 Laws; 1 Laws and particulars; 2 Properties and particulars; 3 Nomic relations; 4 Determinable universals | |
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