Readership: Scholars and students of philosophy, especially philosophy of science; physicists
Edited by Huw Price, University of Sydney, and Richard Corry, University of Tasmania
"first-rate essays by distinguished authors...This volume...deserves the attention of anyone with a serious interest in the nature of causation." - Daniel Hausman, Studies in History and Philosophy of Modern Physics
"This is an excellent collection of papers concerning the ontological status of causal relations in light of the microworld revealed by physics...I cannot try to summarize all of these stimulating papers or all of the fascinating issues they raise." - Marc Lange, Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews
1: Huw Price and Richard Corry: . A case for causal republicanism? 2: John D. Norton: Causation as folk science 3: Christopher Hitchcock: What Russell got right 4: Jim Woodward: Causation with a human face 5: Adam Elga: Isolation and folk physics 6: Arif Ahmed: Agency and causation 7: Antony Eagle: Pragmatic causation 8: Peter Menzies: Causation in context 9: Helen Beebee: Hume on causation: the projectivist interpretation 10: Huw Price: Causal perspectivalism 11: Barry Loewer: Counterfactuals and the second law 12: Douglas Kutach: The physical foundations of causation 13: Mathias Frisch: Causation, counterfactuals, and entropy
