Causality and Modern Science

ISBN-13: 9781138520141 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 424 str.

Milton Hindus

Opis

The causal problem has become topical once again

Spis treści

I: A Clarification of Meaning; 1: Causation and Determination, Causalism and Determinism; 2: Formulations of the Causal Principle; II: What Causal Determinism Does Not Assert; 3: An Examination of the Empiricist Critique of Causality; 4: An Examination of the Romantic Critique of Causality; III: What Causal Determinism Does Assert; 5: The Linearity of Causation; 6: The Unidirectionality of Causation; 7: The Externality of Causation; 8: Causality and Novelty; IV: The Function of the Causal Principle in Science; 9: Causality and Rational Knowledge; 10: Causality and Scientific Law; 11: Causality and Scientific Explanation; 12: Causality and Scientific Prediction; 13: The Place of the Causal Principle in Modern Science

O autorze

Mario Bunge