Causation and causal theories
- Title
- Causation and causal theories / editors, Peter A. French, Theodore E. Uehling, Jr., Howard K. Wettstein.
- Published by
- Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, 1984.
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- Description
- 624 pages : illustrations; 24 cm
- Series statement
- Midwest studies in philosophy ; v. 9
- Uniform title
- Midwest studies in philosophy ; v. 9.
- Subject
- Contents
- Is the causal structure of the physical itself something physical? / Hillary Putnam -- Causes, causity, and energy / Hector-Neri Castaneda -- Minimizing arbitrariness : toward a metaphysics of infinitely many isolated concrete worlds / Peter Unger -- The direction of causation and the direction of time / David H. Sanford -- Mackie and Shoemaker on dispositions and properties / Alexander Rosenberg -- Laws and causal relations / Michael Tooley -- Causation and induction / Evan Fales -- Hume was right, almost : and where he wasn't, Kant was / D.S. Shwayder -- Conflicting intuitions about causality / Patrick Suppes -- Probabilistic causality emancipated / John Dupre -- Nomic probability / John L. Pollock -- Two ideals of explanation in natural science / Ernan McMullin -- A type of non-causal explanation / Peter Achinstein -- EPR : lessons for metaphysics / Brian Skyrms -- Epiphenomental and supervenient causation / Jaegwon Kim -- Mind-body interaction and supervenient causation / Ernest Sosa -- Mind and anti-mind : why thinking has no functional definition / George Bealer -- Parallelism, interactionism, and causation / Laird Addis -- Action, causality, and teleological explanation / Arthur Collins -- Agency and causation / Zeno Vendler -- Thoughts and their ascription / Michael Devitt -- Establishing causal connections : meta-analysis and psychotherapy / Edward Erwin -- A syntactically motivated theory of conditionals / William G. Lycan -- How the causal theorist follows a rule / Penelope Maddy -- Semantical anthropology / Joseph Almog -- Causality and the paradox of names / Michael McKinsey -- Causal theories of knowledge / Fred Dretske and Berent Enc -- The concept of knowledge / Colin McGinn -- Reliability, justification, and the problem of induction / James Van Cleve -- Perception, causation, and supervenience / Brian P. McLaughlin -- Causation and identity / Chris Swoyer.
- Owning institution
- Princeton University Library
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references.