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...

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Détails bibliographiques
Cote:Libro Electrónico
Autres auteurs: Collins, John David, Hall, Edward J. (Edward Jonathan), 1966-, Paul, L. A. (Laurie Ann), 1966-
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©2004.
Collection:Representation and mind.
Sujets:
Causation.
Counterfactuals (Logic)
Contrefactuels (Logique)
PHILOSOPHY > Epistemology.
Causation
PHILOSOPHY/General
Accès en ligne:Texto completo
Table des matières:
  • 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.

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