Midwest Studies in Philosophy. Volume IX: Causation and causal theories / editors, Peter A. French, Theodore E. Uehling, Jr., Howard K. Wettstein
1984, 1st edition. Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press. Very good copy in the original gilt-blocked cloth. Spine bands and panel edges somewhat dulled and rubbed as with age. Water staining to the covers. Remains quite well-preserved overall. Item #422803
ISBN: 0816613494
Physical description; 624 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. Contents; Is the causal structure of the physical itself something physical? / Hillary Putnam -- Causes, causity, and energy / Hector-Neri Castaneda -- Minimizing arbitrariness : toward a metaphysics of infinitely many isolated concrete worlds / Peter Unger -- The direction of causation and the direction of time / David H. Sanford -- Mackie and Shoemaker on dispositions and properties / Alexander Rosenberg -- Laws and causal relations / Michael Tooley -- Causation and induction / Evan Fales -- Hume was right, almost : and where he wasn't, Kant was / D.S. Shwayder -- Conflicting intuitions about causality / Patrick Suppes -- Probabilistic causality emancipated / John Dupre -- Nomic probability / John L. Pollock -- Two ideals of explanation in natural science / Ernan McMullin -- A type of non-causal explanation / Peter Achinstein -- EPR : lessons for metaphysics / Brian Skyrms -- Epiphenomental and supervenient causation / Jaegwon Kim -- Mind-body interaction and supervenient causation / Ernest Sosa -- Mind and anti-mind : why thinking has no functional definition / George Bealer -- Parallelism, interactionism, and causation / Laird Addis -- Action, causality, and teleological explanation / Arthur Collins -- Agency and causation / Zeno Vendler -- Thoughts and their ascription / Michael Devitt -- Establishing causal connections : meta-analysis and psychotherapy / Edward Erwin -- A syntactically motivated theory of conditionals / William G. Lycan -- How the causal theorist follows a rule / Penelope Maddy -- Semantical anthropology / Joseph Almog -- Causality and the paradox of names / Michael McKinsey -- Causal theories of knowledge / Fred Dretske and Berent Enc -- The concept of knowledge / Colin McGinn -- Reliability, justification, and the problem of induction / James Van Cleve -- Perception, causation, and supervenience / Brian P. McLaughlin -- Causation and identity / Chris Swoyer. Subjects; Causation. Causation Addresses, essays, lectures. Philosophy, Causation.
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