Contributor
Beebee, Helen.
Imprint:Oxford : Oxford University Press, c2009.
Descriptionxv, 790 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Note:PART I. THE HISTORY OF CAUSATION: The ancient Greeks / Sarah Braodie -- The medievals / John Marenbon -- The early moderns / Kenneth Clatterbaugh -- Hume / Don Garrett -- Kant / Eric Watkins -- The logical empiricists / Michael Stöltzner -- PART II. STANDARD APPROACHES TO CAUSATION: Regularity theories / Stathis Psillos -- Counterfactual theories / L.A. Paul -- Probabilistic theories / Jon Williamson -- Causal process theories / Phil Dowe -- Agency and interventionist theories / James F. Woodward -- PART III. ALTERNATIVE APPROACHES TO CAUSATION : Causal powers and capacities / Stephen Mumford -- Anti-reductionism / John W. Carroll -- Causal modelling / Christopher Hitchcock -- Mechanisms / Stuart Glennan -- Causal pluralism / Peter Godfrey-Smith -- PART IV. THE METAPHYSICS OF CAUSATION: Platitudes and counterexamples / Peter Menzies -- Causes, laws, and ontology / Michael Tooley -- Causal relata / Douglas Ehring -- The time-asymmetry of causation / Huw Price, Brad Weslake -- PART V. THE EPISTEMOLOGY OF CAUSATION: The psychology of causal perception and reasoning / David Danks -- Causation and observation / Helen Beebee -- Causation and statistical inference / Clark Glymour -- PART VI. CAUSATION IN PHILOSOPHICAL THEORIES: Mental causation / Cei Maslen, Terry Horgan, Helen Dayly -- Causation, action, and free will / Alfred R. Mele -- Causation and ethics / Carolina Sartorio -- Causal theories of knowledge and perception / Ram Neta -- Causation and semantic content / Frank Jackson -- Causation and explanation / Peter Lipton -- Causation and reduction / Paul Humphreys -- PART VII. CAUSATION IN OTHER DISCIPLINES: Causation in classical mechanics / Marc Lange -- Causation in statistical mechanics / Lawrence Sklar -- Causation in quantum mechanics / Richard Healey -- Causation in spacetime theories / Carl Hoefer -- Causation in biology / Samir Okasha -- Causation in the social sciences / Harold Kincaid -- Causation in the law / Jane Stapleton.
Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references and index.
