Causes and coincidences
1992, 1st edition. Cambridge : Cambridge University Press. Near fine cloth copy in a very good if slightly edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust-wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Item #392649
ISBN: 0521416507
Series: Cambridge Studies in Philosophy. Physical description: xii, 188 pages, 22 cm. Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 182-185) and index. Contents: I. The Inexplicability of a Coincidence. What is a coincidence? The inexplicability of a coincidence: agglomerativity. The inexplicability of a coincidence: transitivity. Explanation and laws -- 2. Causes and Laws. Causal and nomological relations. Some Humean theses. Laws. An argument for necessity? Conclusion -- 3. Events and Non-Causal Explanations. Davidson. Lewis. Causation as causal explanation -- 4. Causal Explanation. Empirical content. Causal explanation. Non-causal explanation. Constitutive explanation and event constitution -- 5. The Direction of Causal Explanation. Causal forks. Coincidences and the direction of causation. Dummett's apple. Experience and causation. Some objections. Knowledge and time -- 6. Levels of Causation. The primacy of physics. Reductionism and causal pervasion. Reduction. Autonomy and reduction. Autonomy and causal pervasion -- 7. Deviant Causal Chains. The causal theory of perception. Perception and physiology. Perception and teleology.
The causal theory of memory -- 8. Causation in Action. The causal theory of action. Is decision theory empirical? The autonomy of psychology. Deviance in action -- Conclusion: Whither causal realism? Subjects: Causation; Coincidence; Coincidence Philosophical aspects; Metaphysics; Philosophy.
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