The Oxford Handbook of Causation (eBook, ePUB)

Redaktion: Beebee, Helen; Menzies, Peter; Hitchcock, Christopher

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. Januar 2012
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780191629464
• Artikelnr.: 38144543

Autorenporträt

Helen Beebee is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Birmingham Christopher Hitchcock is Professor of Philosophy at the California Institute of Technology Peter Menzies is Professor of Philosophy at Macquarie University, Sydney

Inhaltsangabe

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