The facts of causation /

The Facts of Causation covers all kinds of causing and affecting, of both events and facts; deterministic and indeterministic, mental and physical, transparent and opaque. It shows how the chances a cause gives its effects enable it to explain, be evidence for and a means to them, and why it must pr...

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主要作者: Mellor, D. H.
格式: Licensed eBooks
語言:英语
出版: London ; New York : Routledge, 1995.
叢編:International library of philosophy.
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書本目錄:
  • 1. Deterministic causation
  • 2. The chances of effects
  • 3. Interpretations of probability
  • 4. Chance
  • 5. Indeterministic causation
  • 6. Raising the chances of effects
  • 7. Causes as means
  • 8. Degrees of effectiveness
  • 9. Factual causes and effects
  • 10. Events
  • 11. Particular causes and effects
  • 12. Affecting particulars
  • 13. Causal relations
  • 14. Causal facta
  • 15. Properties
  • 16. Laws
  • 17. Time.