The difference between cause and effect seems obvious and crucial in ordinary life, yet missing from modern physics. Almost a century ago, Bertrand Russell called the law of causality 'a relic of a bygone age'. In this important collection 13 leading scholars revisit Russell's revolutionary conclusion, discussing one of the most significant and puzzling issues in contemporary thought.
The difference between cause and effect seems obvious and crucial in ordinary life, yet missing from modern physics. Almost a century ago, Bertrand Russell called the law of causality 'a relic of a bygone age'. In this important collection 13 leading scholars revisit Russell's revolutionary conclusion, discussing one of the most significant and puzzling issues in contemporary thought.Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
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1: Huw Price and Richard Corry: . A case for causal republicanism? 2: John D. Norton: Causation as folk science 3: Christopher Hitchcock: What Russell got right 4: Jim Woodward: Causation with a human face 5: Adam Elga: Isolation and folk physics 6: Arif Ahmed: Agency and causation 7: Antony Eagle: Pragmatic causation 8: Peter Menzies: Causation in context 9: Helen Beebee: Hume on causation: the projectivist interpretation 10: Huw Price: Causal perspectivalism 11: Barry Loewer: Counterfactuals and the second law 12: Douglas Kutach: The physical foundations of causation 13: Mathias Frisch: Causation, counterfactuals, and entropy
1: Huw Price and Richard Corry: . A case for causal republicanism? 2: John D. Norton: Causation as folk science 3: Christopher Hitchcock: What Russell got right 4: Jim Woodward: Causation with a human face 5: Adam Elga: Isolation and folk physics 6: Arif Ahmed: Agency and causation 7: Antony Eagle: Pragmatic causation 8: Peter Menzies: Causation in context 9: Helen Beebee: Hume on causation: the projectivist interpretation 10: Huw Price: Causal perspectivalism 11: Barry Loewer: Counterfactuals and the second law 12: Douglas Kutach: The physical foundations of causation 13: Mathias Frisch: Causation, counterfactuals, and entropy
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