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Thinking about Causes : From Greek Philosophy to Modern Physics /
Emerging as a hot topic in the mid-twentieth century, causality is one of the most frequently discussed issues in contemporary philosophy. Causality has been a central concept in philosophy as well as in the sciences, especially the natural sciences, dating back to its beginning in Greek thought. Da...
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| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Pittsburgh, Pa. :
University of Pittsburgh Press,
2007.
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Tabla de Contenidos:
- The concept of causality in Greek thought / Jürgen Mittelstrass
- Moral causes : the role of physical explanation in ancient ethics / Brad Inwood
- Ancient Stoicism, "robust epistemology," and moral philosophy / Emidio Spinelli
- Powerless causes : the case of sacramental causality / Marilyn McCord Adams
- From Scholasticism to modern physics and back : the transformation of traditional causal concepts in Descartes and Occasionalism / Robert Schnepf
- Kant on transcendental laws / Eric Watkins
- Freedom from necessity : the influence of J.S. Mill's politics on his concept of causation / Laura J. Snyder
- Mill on causation and the historical turn in philosophy of science : some historical and methodological remarks / Paolo Parrini
- Sprachkritik and the problem of historical understanding : Kant, Dilthey, Wittgenstein, and Weber / Henry Krips
- Plurality in causality / Raffaella Campaner and Maria Carla Galavotti
- How to be a causal pluralist / Christopher Hitchcock
- Do the causal principles of modern physics contradict causal anti-fundamentalism? / John D. Norton
- Epiphenomenalism : the dos and the don'ts / Larry Shapiro and Elliott Sober
- On selection of, for, with, and against / Peter McLaughlin
- Causality in economics / Sir Clive W.J. Granger
- The core of free will / Wolfgang Spohn.