The book provides an analysis of a key notion in our lives, causation: what its nature is; how we should characterise it in language, how it relates to laws of nature, how causes differ from their effects and why they tend to occur earlier than their effects.
The book provides an analysis of a key notion in our lives, causation: what its nature is; how we should characterise it in language, how it relates to laws of nature, how causes differ from their effects and why they tend to occur earlier than their effects.
Paul Noordhof is Anniversary Professor of Philosophy at the University of York, having previously been a Professor of Philosophy at the University of Nottingham. He was an Associate Editor of Mind from 1991-2015, and its Reviews Editor from 2000-2015. He has published in Analysis, British Journal for the Philosophy Science, Mind, Mind and Language, Philosophical Quarterly, Philosophical Studies, and Philosophy and Phenomenological Research on topics in belief, causation, emergence, imagination, perceptual content and self-deception. He had a Research Fellowship at Clare Hall, Cambridge from 1992-1994, and a Major Leverhulme Research Fellowship from 2006-2009. He has co-edited books on Causation and Art and Belief for Routledge and OUP.
Inhaltsangabe
1: The Analysis of Causation 2: Humean Supervenience and the Possibility of Necessitation 3: Counterfactuals and Closeness 4: A Counterfactual Analysis of Causation 5: The Nontransitivity of Causation 6: Causal Circumstances 7: The Ontological Categories of Causes 8: Negative Causation and the Relationality of Causation 9: Property Causation 10: Non-Causal Counterfactual Dependence and Intrinsicality 11: Processes and Prevention 12: Causal nonsymmetry 13: Agency, Intervention, and the Past 14: Causation and Laws 15: The Ontoloty of Chance 16: Humean Supervenience and Possible Worlds
1: The Analysis of Causation 2: Humean Supervenience and the Possibility of Necessitation 3: Counterfactuals and Closeness 4: A Counterfactual Analysis of Causation 5: The Nontransitivity of Causation 6: Causal Circumstances 7: The Ontological Categories of Causes 8: Negative Causation and the Relationality of Causation 9: Property Causation 10: Non-Causal Counterfactual Dependence and Intrinsicality 11: Processes and Prevention 12: Causal nonsymmetry 13: Agency, Intervention, and the Past 14: Causation and Laws 15: The Ontoloty of Chance 16: Humean Supervenience and Possible Worlds
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