Causation, Explanation, and the Metaphysics of Aspect

ISBN-13: 9780198826965 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 192 str.

Bradford Skow

Opis

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.

Recenzje

short but sweet ... this book is a quick, easy and rewarding read which draws interesting new links between topics that might have seemed to many readers to be unconnected. ... Anyone with a serious interest in metaphysics will find these discussions interesting and illuminating. Alastair Wilson, Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews

O autorze

Bradford Skow is the Laurance S. Rockefeller Professor of Philosopy at MIT. He earned his BA from Oberlin College and his PhD from New York University. He is the author of Objective Becoming (OUP 2015) and Reasons Why (OUP 2016).