The Oxford handbook of causation

Detalles Bibliográficos
Otros Autores: Beebee, Helen, ed (ed), Hitchcock, Christopher, 1964- ed, Menzies, Peter, ed
Formato: Libro
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Oxford : Oxford University Press 2009
Materias:
Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull:https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991004342199706719
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction – The Ancient Greeks – The Medievals – The Early Moderns – Hume – Kant – The Logical Empiricists – Regularity Theories – Counterfactual Theories – Probabilistic Theories – Causal Process Theories – Agency and Interventionist Theories – Causal Powers and Capacities – Anti-Reductionism – Causal Modelling – Mechanisms – Causal Pluralism – Platitudes and Counterexamples – Causes, Laws, and Ontology – Causal Relata – The Time-Asymmetry of Causation – The Psychology of Causal Perception and Reasoning – Causation and Observation – Causation and Statistical Inference – Mental Causation – Causation, Action, and Free Will – Causation and Ethics – Causal Theories of Knowledge and Perception – Causation and Semantic Content – Causation and Explanation – Causation and Reduction – Causation in Classical Mechanics – Causation in Statistical Mechanics – Causation in Quantum Mechanics – Causation in Spacetime Theories – Causation in Biology – Causation in the Social Sciences – Causation in the Law