Causation is at once familiar and mysterious--we can detect its presence in the world, but we cannot agree on the metaphysics of the causal relation. L. A. Paul and Ned Hall guide the reader through the most important philosophical treatments of causation, and develop a broad and sophisticated understanding of the issues under debate.
Causation is at once familiar and mysterious--we can detect its presence in the world, but we cannot agree on the metaphysics of the causal relation. L. A. Paul and Ned Hall guide the reader through the most important philosophical treatments of causation, and develop a broad and sophisticated understanding of the issues under debate.
L. A. Paul is Professor of Philosophy at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She has held positions at Yale University, the Australian National University, and the University of Arizona. Ned Hall is Professor of Philosophy at Harvard University.
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Preface 1: The scope and aims of this "guide" 2: Framework and preliminaries 3: Varieties of redundant causation 4: Causation involving omissions 5: Cases that threaten transitivity 6: Concluding remarks References Index
Preface 1: The scope and aims of this "guide" 2: Framework and preliminaries 3: Varieties of redundant causation 4: Causation involving omissions 5: Cases that threaten transitivity 6: Concluding remarks References Index
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