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Causation and counterfactuals /
One philosophical approach to causation sees counterfactual dependence as the key to the explanation of causal facts: for example, events c (the cause) and e (the effect) both occur, but had c not occurred, e would not have occurred either. The counterfactual analysis of causation became a focus of...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Otros Autores: | , , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge, Mass. :
MIT Press,
©2004.
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| Colección: | Representation and mind.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Counterfactuals and causation : history, problems, and prospects / John Collins, Ned Hall, and L.A. Paul
- Trumping preemption / Jonathan Schaffer
- Causation as influence / David Lewis
- Preemptive prevention / John Collins
- Advertisement for a sketch of an outline of a prototheory of causation / Stephen Yablo
- Difference-making in context / Peter Menzies
- Causation and the price of transitivity / Ned Hall
- Aspect causation / L.A. Paul
- Two concepts of causation / Ned Hall
- Void and object / David Lewis
- Causing and nothingness / Helen Beebee
- For facts as causes and effects / D.H. Mellor
- Preempting preemption / David Coady
- Causes, contrasts, and the nontransitivity of causation / Cei Maslen
- Causation : probabilistic and counterfactual analyses / Igal Kvart
- A counterfactual analysis of indeterministic causation / Murali Ramachandran
- Do all and only causes raise the probabilities of effects? / Christopher Hitchcock
- Causation, counterfactuals, and the third factor / Tim Maudlin
- Going through the open door again : counterfactual versus singularist theories of causation / D.M Armstrong.