| Reviews |
| - '`Since the 1960's, the Oxford Readings in Philosophy have provided an essential service to all teachers of the subject. ... in a colourful and attractive new format, but the essential aim of the series remains unchanged: to introduce students, as gently as is realistically possible, to the best work in a given area. ... the volume on time is very wide ranging
Cogito :Winter 1993' -
- '`Excellent selection from the literature'
W.H. Newton-Smith, Balliol College, University of Oxford' -
- '`First-rate anthology'
Mr R.B. Taylor, University of Kent' -
- '`Very useful collection of papers.'
Dr E.J. Lowe, Durham University' -
- '`An excellent collection containing classic papers on causation.'
Dr C. Macdonald, University of Manchester' -
- ''This anthology will be quite valuable to professional philosophers, graduate students and advanced undergraduates. It could easily be used as a source of material for a seminar on causation. The book contains an extensive bibliography and this alone makes it a valuable resource to anyone doing research in this or a related field.'
Fred Foulks, University of British Columbia, Canadian Philosophical Reviews, Vol. XIV, No. 1, Feb 1994' -
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| Description | | This volume presents a selection of the most influential recent discussions of the crucial metaphysical questions: what is it for one event to cause another? The subject of causation bears on many topics, such as time, explanation, mental states, the laws of nature, and the philosphy of science. |
Readership: Students (undergraduate and graduate) and scholars who wish to have the key texts on the philosophy of causation gathered in a single volume.
| Contents |
Introduction
Causes and Conditions
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J. L. Mackie
Defects of the Necessary Conditional Analysis of Causation
Michael Scriven
Causes and Events: Mackie on Causation
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Jaegwon Kim
Causality and Determination
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G. E. M. Anscombe
Causal Relations
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Donald Davidson
On the Logic and Epistemology of the Causal Relation
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G. H. von Wright
On the Nature and Observability of the Causal Relation
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C. J. Ducasse
Probabilistic Causality
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Wesley C. Salmon
Causality: Production and Propagation
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Wesley C. Salmon
Causation: Reductionism versus Realism
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Michael Tooley
Causation
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David Lewis
Causes and Counterfactuals
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Jaegwon Kim
Lewis's Program
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Paul Horwich
Event Causation: The Counterfactual Analysis
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Jonathan Bennett
Varieties of Causation
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Ernest Sosa
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| Authors, editors,
and contributors |
Edited by Ernest Sosa, Romeo Elton Professor in the Department of Philosophy, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island and
Michael Tooley, Professor of Philosophy, University of Colorado at Boulder
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