The Oxford Handbook of Causation
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 12 November 2009
- ISBN 9780199279739
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages816 pages
- Size 254x179x48 mm
- Weight 1528 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 41 line-drawings 0
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Short description:
Causation is a central topic in many areas of philosophy, including metaphysics, epistemology, philosophy of mind, ethics, history of philosophy, and philosophy of science. Thirty-seven specially written chapters by some of the world's leading philosophers provide the most comprehensive critical guide available to issues surrounding causation.
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Causation is a central topic in many areas of philosophy. In metaphysics, philosophers want to know what causation is, and how it is related to laws of nature, probability, action, and freedom of the will. In epistemology, philosophers investigate how causal claims can be inferred from statistical data, and how causation is related to perception, knowledge and explanation. In the philosophy of mind, philosophers want to know whether and how the mind can be said to have causal efficacy, and in ethics, whether there is a moral distinction between acts and omissions and whether the moral value of an act can be judged according to its consequences. And causation is a contested concept in other fields of enquiry, such as biology, physics, and the law.
This book provides an in-depth and comprehensive overview of these and other topics, as well as the history of the causation debate from the ancient Greeks to the logical empiricists. The chapters provide surveys of contemporary debates, while often also advancing novel and controversial claims; and each includes a comprehensive bibliography and suggestions for further reading. The book is thus the most comprehensive source of information about causation currently available, and will be invaluable for upper-level undergraduates through to professional philosophers.
Table of Contents:
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
