Описание: This volume brings together experts who delve into classic and unexplored lines of philosophical inquiry related to downward causation. It critically assesses the possibility of downward causation given different ontological assumptions and explores the connection between downward causation and the metaphysics of causation and dispositions.
Название: Neo-Aristotelian Perspectives on Formal Causation ISBN: 0367341204 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780367341206 Издательство: Taylor&Francis Рейтинг: Цена: 22202.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: This book is devoted to Aristotelian formal causation and its relevance for contemporary metaphysics and philosophy of science. It traces the historical development of formal causation and demonstrates its relevance for causation, explanation, laws of nature, functions, essence, modality, and metaphysical grounding.
Автор: Beebee, Helen; Hitchcock, Christopher; Menzies, Pe Название: The Oxford Handbook of Causation ISBN: 0199642583 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780199642588 Издательство: Oxford Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 6493.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: 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.
Автор: Huw Price and Richard Corry Название: Causation, physics, and the constitution of reality ISBN: 0199278180 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780199278183 Издательство: Oxford Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 19800.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: 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.
Автор: Skow, Bradford (laurance S. Rockefeller Professor Of Philosophy, Massachusetts Institute Of Technology) Название: Causation, explanation, and the metaphysics of aspect ISBN: 0198826966 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780198826965 Издательство: Oxford Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 10454.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Bradford Skow examines important philosophical questions about causation and explanation. His answers rely on a pair of connected distinctions: the distinction between acting and not acting, and that between situations in which an event happens and when something is in some state.
Автор: Reiss, Julian (durham University, Uk) Название: Causation, evidence, and inference ISBN: 0815371985 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780815371984 Издательство: Taylor&Francis Рейтинг: Цена: 7501.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
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In this book, Reiss argues in favor of a tight fit between evidence, concept and purpose in our causal investigations in the sciences. There is no doubt that the sciences employ a vast array of techniques to address causal questions such as controlled experiments, randomized trials, statistical and econometric tools, causal modeling and thought experiments. But how do these different methods relate to each other and to the causal inquiry at hand? Reiss argues that there is no "gold standard" in settling causal issues against which other methods can be measured. Rather, the various methods of inference tend to be good only relative to certain interpretations of the word "cause," and each interpretation, in turn, helps to address some salient purpose (prediction, explanation or policy analysis) but not others. The main objective of this book is to explore the metaphysical and methodological consequences of this view in the context of numerous cases studies from the natural and social sciences.
Автор: Wang, Wei Название: Explanation, Laws, and Causation ISBN: 036752290X ISBN-13(EAN): 9780367522902 Издательство: Taylor&Francis Рейтинг: Цена: 6430.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Scientific explanation, laws of nature and causation are crucial and frontier issues in the philosophy of science. This book studies the complex relationship between the three concepts, aiming to achieve a holistic synthesis about explanation-laws-causation.
Автор: Ingthorsson, R.d. (lund University, Sweden) Название: Powerful particulars view of causation ISBN: 0367486296 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780367486297 Издательство: Taylor&Francis Рейтинг: Цена: 22202.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: This book critically examines the recent discussions of powers and powers-based accounts of causation. The author then develops an original view of powers-based causation that aims to be compatible with the theories and findings of natural science.
Автор: H. Sankey Название: Causation and Laws of Nature ISBN: 0792359143 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780792359142 Издательство: Springer Рейтинг: Цена: 27944.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Provides an overview of the theory of causation, including counterfactual, singularist, nomological and causal process approaches. This book also covers work on the nature of laws of nature, with emphasis on the scientific essentialist theory that laws of nature are, at base, the fundamental dispositions or capacities of natural kinds of things.
Автор: B. Skyrms; W.L. Harper Название: Causation, Chance and Credence ISBN: 9027726337 ISBN-13(EAN): 9789027726339 Издательство: Springer Рейтинг: Цена: 25149.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Proceedings of the Irvine Conference on Probability and Causation, Volume I.
Автор: Ben-Menahem Yemima Название: Causation in Science ISBN: 0691174938 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780691174938 Издательство: Wiley Рейтинг: Цена: 6336.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
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This book explores the role of causal constraints in science, shifting our attention from causal relations between individual events--the focus of most philosophical treatments of causation--to a broad family of concepts and principles generating constraints on possible change. Yemima Ben-Menahem looks at determinism, locality, stability, symmetry principles, conservation laws, and the principle of least action--causal constraints that serve to distinguish events and processes that our best scientific theories mandate or allow from those they rule out.
Ben-Menahem's approach reveals that causation is just as relevant to explaining why certain events fail to occur as it is to explaining events that do occur. She investigates the conceptual differences between, and interrelations of, members of the causal family, thereby clarifying problems at the heart of the philosophy of science. Ben-Menahem argues that the distinction between determinism and stability is pertinent to the philosophy of history and the foundations of statistical mechanics, and that the interplay of determinism and locality is crucial for understanding quantum mechanics. Providing historical perspective, she traces the causal constraints of contemporary science to traditional intuitions about causation, and demonstrates how the teleological appearance of some constraints is explained away in current scientific theories such as quantum mechanics.
Causation in Science represents a bold challenge to both causal eliminativism and causal reductionism--the notions that causation has no place in science and that higher-level causal claims are reducible to the causal claims of fundamental physics.
Автор: White Название: The Understanding of Causation and the Production of Action ISBN: 1138877042 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781138877047 Издательство: Taylor&Francis Рейтинг: Цена: 8114.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: This text is an attempt to trace out a line of development in the understanding of how things happen, from origins in infancy to mature forms in adulthood.
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