Causation and Causal Theories
โ French P.A., Uehling, T.E., Jr., Wettstein H.K.
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1984
๐ University of Minnesota Press
๐ English
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A Theory of Causation in the Social and Biological Sciences
โ Scribed by Alexander Reutlinger (auth.)
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- Palgrave Macmillan UK
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- 2013
- Tongue
- English
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- 285
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- Library
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โฆ Table of Contents
Front Matter....Pages i-xii
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Causation in the Special Sciences....Pages 3-24
The Interventionist Theory of Causation....Pages 25-70
Front Matter....Pages 71-71
Counterfactuals: A Problem for Interventionists?....Pages 73-103
Getting Rid of Interventions....Pages 104-124
Non-Universal Laws....Pages 125-145
Woodward Meets Russell: Does Causation Fit into the World of Physics?....Pages 146-174
Front Matter....Pages 175-175
In Defence of Conceptually Non-Reductive Explications of Causation....Pages 177-198
The Comparative Variability Theory of Causation....Pages 199-232
Consequences....Pages 233-251
Back Matter....Pages 252-276
โฆ Subjects
Philosophy of Science; Philosophy of the Social Sciences; Social Philosophy
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