Physical causation
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書誌事項
Physical causation
（Cambridge studies in probability, induction, and decision theory）
Cambridge University Press, 2007, c2000
- : pbk
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"First published 2000. This digitally printed version 2007"--T.p. verso
Includes bibliographical references (p. 211-219) and index
内容説明・目次
内容説明
This book, published in 2000, is a clear account of causation based firmly in contemporary science. Dowe discusses in a systematic way, a positive account of causation: the conserved quantities account of causal processes which he has been developing over the last ten years. The book describes causal processes and interactions in terms of conserved quantities: a causal process is the worldline of an object which possesses a conserved quantity, and a causal interaction involves the exchange of conserved quantities. Further, things that are properly called cause and effect are appropriately connected by a set of causal processes and interactions. The distinction between cause and effect is explained in terms of a version of the fork theory: the direction of a certain kind of ordered pattern of events in the world. This particular version has the virtue that it allows for the possibility of backwards causation, and therefore time travel.
目次
- Acknowledgements
- 1. Horses for courses: causation and the task of philosophy
- 2. Hume's legacy: regularity, counterfactual and probabilistic theories of causation
- 3. Transference theories of causation
- 4. Process theories of causation
- 5. The conserved quantity theory
- 6. Prevention and omission
- 7. Connecting causes and effects
- 8. The direction of causation and backwards-in-time causation
- References
- Index.
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