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· 제목 : Physical Causation (Paperback)
· 분류 : 외국도서 > 과학/수학/생태 > 과학 > 과학철학/과학사회
· ISBN : 9780521039758
· 쪽수 : 224쪽
· 출판일 : 2007-08-16
· 분류 : 외국도서 > 과학/수학/생태 > 과학 > 과학철학/과학사회
· ISBN : 9780521039758
· 쪽수 : 224쪽
· 출판일 : 2007-08-16
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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.
