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Routledge
154 Pages
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Routledge
141 Pages
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Routledge
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Philosophers have discussed the relationship of cause and effect from ancient times through our own. Prior to the work of Niels Bohr, these discussions presupposed that successful causal attribution implies explanation. The success of quantum theory challenged this presupposition. Bohr introduced a principle of complementarity that provides a new way of looking at causality and explanation. In... Read more
Introduction1The Causality-Explanation Connection from Aristotle to MillAristotleBacon, Galileo, and DescartesNewtonHumeKantMill2Regularity between States of Physical Systems in the Nineteenth CenturyAlternative Views of Newtonian MechanicsClassical ThermodynamicsKinetic Molecular TheoryAtomic TheoryElectromagnetic Theory
Biography
John Losee
