Causation with a Human Face: Normative Theory and Descriptive Psychology, Woodward James
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: 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: Reutlinger Alexander Название: Theory of Causation in the Social and Biological Sciences ISBN: 1137281030 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781137281036 Издательство: Springer Рейтинг: Цена: 12577.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: This first full length treatment of interventionist theories of causation in the social sciences, the biological sciences and other higher-level sciences the presents original counter arguments to recent trends in the debate and serves as useful introduction to the subject.
Описание: This book offers the reader a guide to the major philosophical approaches to science since World War Two. Considering the bases, arguments and conclusions of the four main movements - Logical Reconstructionism, Descriptivism, Normative Naturalism and Foundationalism - John Losee explores how philosophy has both shaped and expanded our understanding of science.
The volume features major figures of twentieth century science, and engages with the work of previous philosophers of science, including Norman Campbell, Rudolf Carnap, Ernest Nagel, Karl Popper, Richard Dawkins, and John Worrall. In particular, The Golden Age of Philosophy of Science, 1945 to 2000 aims to answer the following questions: How should competing philosophies of science be evaluated? Should philosophy of science be a prescriptive discipline? Can philosophy of science achieve normative status without designating trans-historical evaluative principles? And finally, how can understanding the history of science aid us in analyzing the philosophy of science? In answering these questions, this book shows us why we understand science the way we do.
The Golden Age of Philosophy of Science 1945 to 2000is essential reading for students and researchers working in the history and philosophy of science.
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: Campbell John Название: Causation in Psychology ISBN: 0674967860 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780674967861 Издательство: Wiley Рейтинг: Цена: 5219.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Philosopher John Campbell argues that humans are unique in our ability to imagine singular causation. While robots and nonhuman animals rely on general axioms concerning what causes what, humans can imagine the specific causes of specific outcomes. This suggests that even lifelike artificial intelligence will never truly empathize with humans.
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: 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: Fred Wilson Название: Explanation, Causation and Deduction ISBN: 9401088187 ISBN-13(EAN): 9789401088183 Издательство: Springer Рейтинг: Цена: 12157.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: In recent years, however, this three-fold identity has been challenged: there are, it is argued, causal explanations that are not scientific, scientific explanations that are not deductive, deductions from laws that are neither causal explanations nor scientific explanations, and causal explanations that involve no deductions from laws.
Автор: B. Skyrms; W.L. Harper Название: Causation, Chance and Credence ISBN: 9401077886 ISBN-13(EAN): 9789401077880 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.
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.
Автор: Dowe Phil Название: Physical Causation ISBN: 0521780497 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780521780490 Издательство: Cambridge Academ Цена: 15048.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: This book, published in 2000, discusses in a systematic way, a positive account of causation: the conserved quantities account of causal processes. It is an important book that will be widely discussed among philosophers and students working in contemporary metaphysics and philosophy of science, and also scientists with an interest in foundational issues.
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