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The Oxford Handbook of Causation
Edited by Helen Beebee, Christopher Hitchcock, and Peter Menzies
816 pages
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41 line-drawings
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246x171mm
978-0-19-927973-9
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Hardback
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12 November 2009
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- The ultimate reference work on a fundamental but puzzling aspect of the universe
- Broad and deep coverage of the subject
- Fascinating new essays from an eminent international team of contributors
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.Readership: Advanced students and scholars of philosophy.
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Edited by Helen Beebee, University of Birmingham, Christopher Hitchcock, California Institute of Technology, and Peter Menzies, Macquarie University, Sydney Contributors:
Helen Beebee, University of Birmingham
Sarah Broadie, University of St Andrews
John Carroll, North Carolina State University
Kenneth Clatterbaugh, University of Washington, Seattle
Helen Daly, University of Arizona
David Danks, Carnegie Mellon University and the Florida Institute for Human and Machine Cognition
Phil Dowe, University of Queensland
Douglas Ehring,
Southern Methodist University, Dallas
Don Garrett, New York University
Stuart Glennan, Butler University, Indianapolis
Clark Glymour, Carnegie Mellon University and the Florida Institute for Human and Machine Cognition
Peter Godfrey-Smith, Harvard University
Richard Healey, University of Arizona
Christopher Hitchcock, California Institute of Technology
Carl Hoefer, Autonomous University of Barcelona
Terry Horgan , University of Arizona
Paul Humphreys, University of Virginia
Frank Jackson, Princeton University, La Trobe University, and the Australian National University
Harold Kincaid, University of Alabama at Birmingham
Marc Lange, University of North
Carolina at Chapel Hill
Peter Lipton (1954-2007), formerly University of Cambridge
John Marenbon, Trinity College, Cambridge
Cei Maslen, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand
Alfred Mele, Florida State University
Peter Menzies, Macquarie University, Sydney
Stephen Mumford, University of Nottingham
Ram Neta, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Samir Okasha, University of Bristol
L.A. Paul, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Huw Price, University of Sydney
Stathis Psillos, University of Athens
Carolina Sartorio, University of Wisconsin, Madison
Lawrence Sklar, University of Michigan
Jane Stapleton, University of
Texas, Australian National University, and University of Oxford
Michael Stöltzner, University of South Carolina at Columbia
Michael Tooley, University of Colorado at Boulder
Eric Watkins, University of California, San Diego
Brad Weslake, University of Rochester
Jon Williamson, University of Kent
James Woodward, California Institute of Technology
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Helen Beebee, Christopher Hitchcock and Peter Menzies.: Introduction
1: Sarah Broadie: The Ancient Greeks
2: John Marenbon: The Medievals
3: Kenneth Clatterbaugh: The Early Moderns
4: Don Garrett: Hume
5: Eric Watkins: Kant
6: Michael Stöltzner: The Logical Empiricists
7: Stathis Psillos: Regularity Theories
8: L.A. Paul: Counterfactual Theories
9: Jon Williamson: Probabilistic Theories
10: Phil Dowe: Causal Process Theories
11: James Woodward: Agency and Interventionist Theories
12: Stephen Mumford: Causal Powers and Capacities
13: John Carroll: Anti-Reductionism
14: Christopher Hitchcock: Causal Modelling
15: Stuart Glennan: Mechanisms
16: Peter Godfrey-Smith: Causal Pluralism
17: Peter Menzies: Platitudes and Counterexamples
18: Michael Tooley: Causes, Laws and Ontology
19: Douglas Ehring: Causal Relata
20: Huw Price and Brad Weslake: The Time-Asymmetry of Causation
21: David Danks: The Psychology of Causal Perception and Reasoning
22: Helen Beebee: Causation and Observation
23: Clark Glymour: Causation and Statistical Inference
24: Cei Maslen, Terry Horgan and Helen Daly: Mental Causation
25: Alfred Mele: Causation, Action, and Free Will
26: Carolina Sartorio: Causation and Ethics
27: Ram Neta: Causal Theories of Knowledge and Perception
28: Frank Jackson: Causation and Semantic Content
29: Peter Lipton: Causation and Explanation
30: Paul Humphreys: Causation and Reduction
31: Marc Lange: Causation in Classical Mechanics
32: Lawrence Sklar: Causation in Statistical Mechanics
33: Richard Healey: Causation in Quantum Mechanics
34: Carl Hoefer: Causation in Spacetime Theories
35: Samir Okasha: Causation in Biology
36: Harold Kincaid: Causation in the Social Sciences
37: Jane Stapleton: Causation in the Law
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