Cause and chance : causation in an indeterministic world / edited by Phil Dowe and Paul Noordhof.
Cause and Chance: Causation in an Indeterministic World is a collection of specially written papers by world-class metaphysicians. Its focus is the problems facing the 'reductionist' approach to causation.
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| Language: | English |
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London ; New York :
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2004.
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| Series: | International library of philosophy.
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Table of Contents:
- Counterfactuals and the benefit of hindsight / Dorothy Edgington
- Chance-lowering causes / Phil Dowe
- Chance-changing causal processes / Helen Beebee
- Counterfactual theories, pre-emption, and persistence / Douglas Ehring
- Probability and causation / Michael Tooley
- Analysing chancy causation without appeal to chance-raising / Stephen Barker
- Routes, processes and chance-lowering causes / Chris Hitchcock
- Interdeterministic causation and varieties of chance-raising / Murali Ramachandran
- Probabilistic cause, edge conditions, late pre-emption and discreet cases / Igal Kvart
- Prospects for a counterfactual theory of causation / Paul Noordhof.