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The Oxford Handbook of Causation
Author | : Helen Beebee,Christopher Hitchcock,Peter Menzies |
Publsiher | : OUP Oxford |
Total Pages | : 816 |
Release | : 2012-01-12 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 9780191629464 |
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Causation is a central topic in many areas of philosophy. In metaphysics, philosophers want to know what causation is, and how it is related to laws of nature, probability, action, and freedom of the will. In epistemology, philosophers investigate how causal claims can be inferred from statistical data, and how causation is related to perception, knowledge and explanation. In the philosophy of mind, philosophers want to know whether and how the mind can be said to have causal efficacy, and in ethics, whether there is a moral distinction between acts and omissions and whether the moral value of an act can be judged according to its consequences. And causation is a contested concept in other fields of enquiry, such as biology, physics, and the law. This book provides an in-depth and comprehensive overview of these and other topics, as well as the history of the causation debate from the ancient Greeks to the logical empiricists. The chapters provide surveys of contemporary debates, while often also advancing novel and controversial claims; and each includes a comprehensive bibliography and suggestions for further reading. The book is thus the most comprehensive source of information about causation currently available, and will be invaluable for upper-level undergraduates through to professional philosophers.
The Oxford Handbook of Causal Reasoning
Author | : Michael Waldmann |
Publsiher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 769 |
Release | : 2017 |
Genre | : Psychology |
ISBN | : 9780199399550 |
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Causal reasoning is one of our most central cognitive competencies, enabling us to adapt to our world. Causal knowledge allows us to predict future events, or diagnose the causes of observed facts. We plan actions and solve problems using knowledge about cause-effect relations. Without our ability to discover and empirically test causal theories, we would not have made progress in various empirical sciences. The handbook brings together the leading researchers in the field of causal reasoning and offers state-of-the-art presentations of theories and research. It provides introductions of competing theories of causal reasoning, and discusses its role in various cognitive functions and domains. The final section presents research from neighboring fields.
The Oxford Handbook of Causal Reasoning
Author | : Michael Waldmann |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 135 |
Release | : 2017 |
Genre | : Causation |
ISBN | : 0190662743 |
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Causal reasoning is one of our most central cognitive competencies, enabling us to adapt to our world. Causal knowledge allows us to predict future events, or diagnose the causes of observed facts. We plan actions and solve problems using knowledge about cause-effect relations. Without our ability to discover and empirically test causal theories, we would not have made progress in various empirical sciences. The handbook brings together the leading researchers in the field of causal reasoning and offers state-of-the-art presentations of theories and research. It provides introductions of competing theories of causal reasoning, and discusses its role in various cognitive functions and domains. The final section presents research from neighboring fields
The Oxford Handbook of Metaphysics
Author | : Michael J. Loux,Dean W. Zimmerman |
Publsiher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 740 |
Release | : 2005-09-08 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 0199284229 |
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Some of the world's specialists provide in this handbook essays about what kinds of things there are, in what ways they exist, and how they relate to each other. They give the word on such topics as identity, modality, time, causation, persons and minds, freedom, and vagueness.
Making Things Happen
Author | : James Woodward,James Francis Woodward |
Publsiher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 426 |
Release | : 2003 |
Genre | : Causation |
ISBN | : 0195155270 |
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In doing so, he shows how the manipulationist account both illuminates important features of successful causal explanation in the natural and social sciences and avoids the counterexamples and difficulties that infect alternative approaches, from the deductive-nomological model onward."--BOOK JACKET.
Kant and the Metaphysics of Causality
Author | : Eric Watkins |
Publsiher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 466 |
Release | : 2005 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0521543614 |
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A book about Kant's views on causality as understood in their proper historical context.
The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy of Science
Author | : Paul Humphreys |
Publsiher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 960 |
Release | : 2016-08-04 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 9780190630706 |
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This handbook provides both an overview of state-of-the-art scholarship in philosophy of science, as well as a guide to new directions in the discipline. Section I contains broad overviews of the main lines of research and the state of established knowledge in six principal areas of the discipline, including computational, physical, biological, psychological and social sciences, as well as general philosophy of science. Section II covers what are considered to be the traditional topics in the philosophy of science, such as causation, probability, models, ethics and values, and explanation. Section III identifies new areas of investigation that show promise of becoming important areas of research, including the philosophy of astronomy and astrophysics, data, complexity theory, neuroscience, simulations, post-Kuhnian philosophy, post-empiricist epistemology, and emergence. Most chapters are accessible to scientifically educated non-philosophers as well as to professional philosophers, and the contributors - all leading researchers in their field -- bring diverse perspectives from the North American, European, and Australasian research communities. This volume is an essential resource for scholars and students.