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The causal problem has become topical once again. While we are no longer causalists or believers in the universal truth of the causal principle we continue to think of causes and effects, as well as of causal and noncausal relations among them. Instead of becoming indeterminists we have enlarged determinism to include noncausal categories. And we are still in the process of characterizing our... Read more
I: A Clarification of Meaning; 1: Causation and Determination, Causalism and Determinism; 2: Formulations of the Causal Principle; II: What Causal Determinism Does Not Assert; 3: An Examination of the Empiricist Critique of Causality; 4: An Examination of the Romantic Critique of Causality; III: What Causal Determinism Does Assert; 5: The Linearity of Causation; 6: The Unidirectionality of Causation; 7: The Externality of Causation; 8: Causality and Novelty; IV: The Function of the Causal Principle in Science; 9: Causality and Rational Knowledge; 10: Causality and Scientific Law; 11: Causality and Scientific Explanation; 12: Causality and Scientific Prediction; 13: The Place of the Causal Principle in Modern Science
Biography
Mario Bunge
