Research Catalog

Title

Theories of causality : from antiquity to the present / John Losee.

Author

Losee, John.

Publication

New Brunswick, N.J. : Transaction Publishers, c2011.

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Description

viii, 210 p. : ill.; 24 cm.

Subject

Causation

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and indexes

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Aristotle on the four aspects of causation -- Medieval science and the discovery of causes -- Francis Bacon on the exclusion of final causes -- The revival of atomism -- Causes, impacts, and action-at-a-distance -- David Hume on causality -- Kant's response to Hume's regularity view -- J.S. Mill on invariable and unconditional correlations -- Options for a theory of causality ca. 1900 -- C.S. Peirce on causation and causality -- Karl Pearson's version of the regularity view -- Bertrand Russell and N.R. Campbell on causal relations in science -- Causality in physics: revision of the regularity view -- The interpretation of quantum phenomena -- Causality and the three levels of language in quantum mechanics -- Philipp Frank on causality and inferability -- Ducasse and the singularity definition -- Cause as sufficient condition -- Probabilistic causality -- Wesley Salmon on processes and interactions -- Phil Dowe and the conserved quantity theory -- Causality and the transfer of energy or momentum -- Causality and powers -- Manipulability and causality -- David Lewis and the counterfactual conditional view -- Criteria of causal status -- Multiple concepts of causality -- Conflicting criteria of causal status.

ISBN

• 9781412818322
• 141281832X

LCCN

^^2011010279

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Harvard Library