Causation: A Very Short Introduction - Brossura

Mumford, Stephen; Lill Anjum, Rani

 
9780199684434: Causation: A Very Short Introduction
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ISBN 10: 019968443X ISBN 13: 9780199684434
Casa editrice: OUP Oxford, 2013

Sinossi

Causation is the most fundamental connection in the universe. Without it, there would be no science or technology. There would be no moral responsibility either, as none of our thoughts would be connected with our actions and none of our actions with any consequences. Nor would we have a system of law because blame resides only in someone having caused injury or damage.

Any intervention we make in the world around us is premised on there being causal connections that are, to a degree, predictable. It is causation that is at the basis of prediction and also explanation. This Very Short Introduction introduces the key theories of causation and also the surrounding debates and controversies. Do causes produce their effects by guaranteeing them? Do causes have to precede their effects? Can causation be reduced to the forces of physics? And are we right to think of causation as one single thing at all?

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Informazioni sull?autore

Stephen Mumford is Professor of Metaphysics at the Department of Philosophy, University of Nottingham, and Dean of the Faculty of Arts. He has written several books on this topic, including Dispositions (OUP, 1998), Laws in Nature (Routledge, 2004), Getting Causes from Powers (with Rani Lill Anjum, OUP, 2011), and Metaphysics: A Very Short Introduction (OUP, 2012).

Rani Lill Anjum is Research Fellow at the Norwegian University of Life Science where she leads the Causation in Science research project (CauSci). CauSci is a global network for those interested in a scientifically informed philosophy of causation. She has written many popular articles in magazines and newspapers and delivered numerous talks for non-specialist audiences. She is the co-author of Getting Causes from Powers (OUP, 2011).


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Editore
OUP Oxford
Data di pubblicazione
2013
Lingua
Inglese
ISBN 10 
019968443X
ISBN 13 
9780199684434
Rilegatura
Copertina flessibile
Numero di pagine
144
Contatto del produttore
non disponibile
Persona responsabile
gpsr@libri.de
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