Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- 1 Horses for Courses: Causation and the Task of Philosophy
- 2 Hume's Legacy: Regularity, Counterfactual and Probabilistic Theories of Causation
- 3 Transference Theories of Causation
- 4 Process Theories of Causation
- 5 The Conserved Quantity Theory
- 6 Prevention and Omission
- 7 Connecting Causes and Effects
- 8 The Direction of Causation and Backwards-in-Time Causation
- References
- Index
Frontmatter
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 13 October 2009
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- 1 Horses for Courses: Causation and the Task of Philosophy
- 2 Hume's Legacy: Regularity, Counterfactual and Probabilistic Theories of Causation
- 3 Transference Theories of Causation
- 4 Process Theories of Causation
- 5 The Conserved Quantity Theory
- 6 Prevention and Omission
- 7 Connecting Causes and Effects
- 8 The Direction of Causation and Backwards-in-Time Causation
- References
- Index
Summary
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- Information
- Physical Causation , pp. i - viPublisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2000