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Causation in science /

"This book explores the role of causal constraints in science, shifting our attention from causal relations between individual events--the focus of most philosophical treatments of causation--to a broad family of concepts and principles generating constraints on possible change. Yemima Ben-Mena...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Ben-Menahem, Yemima, 1946- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, [2018]
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • From Causal Relations to Causal Constraints
  • Determinism and Stability
  • Determinism and Stability in Physics
  • Determinism and Locality
  • Symmetries and Conservation Laws
  • The Principle of Least Action: From Teleology to Causality
  • Causation and Reduction.