1st Edition

Cause and Chance Causation in an Indeterministic World

By Phil Dowe, Paul Noordhof Copyright 2004
220 Pages
by Routledge

224 Pages
by Routledge

224 Pages
by Routledge

Philosophers have long been fascinated by the connection between cause and effect: are 'causes' things we can experience, or are they concepts provided by our minds? The study of causation goes back to Aristotle, but resurged with David Hume and Immanuel Kant, and is now one of the most important topics in metaphysics. Most of the recent work done in this area has attempted to place causation in a... Read more
Dorothy Edgington, Phil Dowe, Helen Beebee, Douglas Ehring, Michael Tooley, Steve Barker, Chris Hitchcock,
M. Ramachandran, Igal Kvart, Paul Noordhof

Biography

Dowe, Phil; Noordhof, Paul

'This well-edited volume contains essays of considerable ingenuity on a difficult subject, the analysis of 'x causes y' in indeterministic systems'. Clark Glymour, Mind