Cause and Chance: Causation in an Indeterministic World

ISBN-13: 9780415300988 / Angielski / Twarda / 2003 / 224 str.

Phil Dowe; Paul Noordhof

Opis

Philosophers have long been fascinated by the connection between cause and effect: are causes things we can experience or are they concepts provided by our minds? The study of causation goes back to Aristotle, but resurged with David Hume and Immanuel Kant, and is now one of the most important topics in metaphysics. Most of the recent work done in this area has attempted to place causation in a deterministic, scientific worldview. But what about the unpredictable and chancey world we actually live in: can one theory of causation cover all instances of cause and effect? problems facing the reductionist approach to causation: the attempt to cover all types of causation, deterministic and indeterministic, with one basic theory.

Recenzje

' ... important new work on a complex and contentious topic' - The Philosophical Quarterly

Spis treści

Dorothy Edgington, Phil Dowe, Helen Beebee, Douglas Ehring, Michael Tooley, Steve Barker, Chris Hitchcock,
M. Ramachandran, Igal Kvart, Paul Noordhof

O autorze

Dowe, Phil; Noordhof, Paul