Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Figures
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: Causation and its Asymmetries
- 1 Metaphysical Pictures and Wishes
- 1* Transfer Theories
- 2 Is Causation a Relation Among Events?
- 3 Causation, Regularities, and Time: Hume's Theory
- 4 Causation and Independence
- 4* Causation, Independence, and Causal Connection
- 5 Agency Theory
- 5* Causal Generalizations and Agency
- 6 The Counterfactual Theory
- 6* Independence and Counterfactual Dependence
- 7 Counterfactuals, Agency, and Independence
- 7* Agency, Counterfactuals, and Independence
- 8 Causation, Explanation, and Laws
- 8* Causation, Explanation, and Independent Alterability
- 9 Probabilistic Causation
- 10 Causation and Conditional Probabilities
- 10* Causal Graphs and Conditional Probabilistic Dependencies
- 11 Intervention, Robustness, and Probabilistic Dependence
- 11* Interventions and Conditional Probabilities
- 12 Operationalizing and Revising the Independence Theory
- 12* Probability Distributions and Causation
- 13 Complications and Conclusions
- Appendix A Alphabetical List of Propositions
- Appendix B List of Theorems
- References
- Index
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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 20 April 2010
Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Figures
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: Causation and its Asymmetries
- 1 Metaphysical Pictures and Wishes
- 1* Transfer Theories
- 2 Is Causation a Relation Among Events?
- 3 Causation, Regularities, and Time: Hume's Theory
- 4 Causation and Independence
- 4* Causation, Independence, and Causal Connection
- 5 Agency Theory
- 5* Causal Generalizations and Agency
- 6 The Counterfactual Theory
- 6* Independence and Counterfactual Dependence
- 7 Counterfactuals, Agency, and Independence
- 7* Agency, Counterfactuals, and Independence
- 8 Causation, Explanation, and Laws
- 8* Causation, Explanation, and Independent Alterability
- 9 Probabilistic Causation
- 10 Causation and Conditional Probabilities
- 10* Causal Graphs and Conditional Probabilistic Dependencies
- 11 Intervention, Robustness, and Probabilistic Dependence
- 11* Interventions and Conditional Probabilities
- 12 Operationalizing and Revising the Independence Theory
- 12* Probability Distributions and Causation
- 13 Complications and Conclusions
- Appendix A Alphabetical List of Propositions
- Appendix B List of Theorems
- References
- Index
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- Causal Asymmetries , pp. 285 - 294Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 1998