Evan Fales

Causation and Universals (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Without objective causal relations and universals, idealism and scepticism win the perennial philosophical battle. Thus claims Evan Fales, who argues for an empiricist yet realist view of this topic, and traces the implications of his view.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 384
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. September 2002
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781134950003
• Artikelnr.: 42825394

Autorenporträt

Evan Fales

Inhaltsangabe

Part one Causal realism 1 Natural necessity 2 An ontological analysis of
causation 3 Causation and laws of nature 4 Causation and induction 5
Causality and time Part two Universals 6 Nominalism reconnoitered 7 The
relation of universals to space and time 8 The nature of universals 9
Generic universals 10 Relations Part three Epistemological realism 111
Skepticism about the existence of the material world 12 Scientific realism