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1 online resource |
| Contents |
Introduction / Helen Beebee, Christopher Hitchcock, and Huw Price -- Causal counterfactuals and impossible worlds / Daniel Nolan -- Two interpretations of the Ramsey test / Rachael Briggs -- Pragmatic explanations of the proportionality constraint on causation / Cei Maslen -- Causation, intervention, and agency : Woodward on Menzies and Price / Huw Price -- The glue of the universe / David Braddon-Mitchell -- Actual causation: What's the use? / Christopher Hitchcock -- Can structural equations explain how mechanisms explain? / Nancy Cartwright -- The problem of counterfactual isomorphs / Peter Menzies -- Cause without default / Thomas Blanchard and Jonathan Schaffer -- Difference-making, closure and exclusion / Brad Weslake -- The program model, difference-makers, and the exclusion problem / Philip Pettit -- Intervening in the exclusion argument / James Woodward -- My brain made me do it : the exclusion argument against free will, and what's wrong with It / Christian List and Peter Menzies -- Epiphenomenalism for functionalists / Helen Beebee -- The consequence argument disarmed : an interventionist perspective / Peter Menzies |
| Summary |
Making a Difference presents new essays on causation and counterfactuals by an international team of experts. The topics range from the semantics of counterfactuals and the context-sensitivity of causal claims, through mechanisms and structural equation models, to mental causation and free will |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
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Causation.
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Philosophy.
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philosophy.
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PHILOSOPHY -- Epistemology.
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Causation
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Philosophy
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Beebee, Helen.
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Hitchcock, Christopher, 1964-
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Price, Huw, 1953-
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| ISBN |
9780191809132 |
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0191809136 |
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9780191063916 |
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0191063916 |
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