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Causation is the most fundamental connection in the universe. Without it, there would be no science or technology. There would be no moral responsibility either, as none of our thoughts would be connected with our actions and none of our actions with any consequences. Nor would we have a system of law because blame resides only in someone having caused injury or damage. Any intervention we make in the world around us is premised on there being causal connections that are, to a degree, predictable. It is causation that is at the basis of prediction and also explanation. This Very Short Introduction introduces the key theories of causation and also the surrounding debates and controversies.
Philosophy of nature --- Causation --- Causalité --- Philosophy --- Causalité
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Causation. --- Probabilities. --- Causalité --- Probabilités --- Causalité --- Probabilités
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Public contracts --- Causation --- Contrats administratifs --- Causalité --- Causalité
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Causation --- Causalité --- Psychological aspects --- Texts --- Aspect psychologique --- Textes --- Causalité
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Causation --- Science --- Causalité --- Sciences --- Philosophy --- Philosophie --- Causalité --- Philosophy - Sciences.
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Fundamental Causation addresses issues in the metaphysics of deterministic singular causation, the metaphysics of events, property instances, facts, preventions, and omissions, as well as the debate between causal reductionists and causal anti-reductionists. The book also pays special attention to causation and causal structure in physics. Weaver argues that causation is a multigrade obtaining relation that is transitive, irreflexive, and asymmetric. When causation is singular, deterministic and such that it relates purely contingent events, the relation is also universal, intrinsic, and well-founded. He shows that proper causal relata are events understood as states of substances at ontological indices. He then proves that causation cannot be reduced to some non-causal base, and that the best account of that relation should be unashamedly primitivist about the dependence relation that underwrites its very nature. The book demonstrates a distinctive realist and anti-reductionist account of causation by detailing precisely how the account outperforms reductionist and competing anti-reductionist accounts in that it handles all of the difficult cases while overcoming all of the general objections to anti-reductionism upon which other anti-reductionist accounts falter. This book offers an original and interesting view of causation and will appeal to scholars and advanced students in the areas of metaphysics, philosophy of science, and philosophy of physics.
Causation. --- Causalité --- Causation --- Science --- Metaphysics --- Philosophy --- Science - Philosophy --- Causalité
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Causalité. --- Déterminisme (philosophie) --- Interprétation (philosophie)
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Causalité --- Événement (Philosophie) --- Existence (Philosophie)
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Causal questions are relevant to all sciences and social sciences, yet how we discover causal connections is no easy matter. Indeed, the choice of methods concerns the correct norms for the empirical study of the world. In this text, two experts on causation relate philosophical theory to scientific practice and propose nine new norms of discovery.
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"This book looks at a broad collection of contributions from experts in their fields"--
Estimation theory --- Causation --- Causality (Physics) --- Théorie de l'estimation --- Causalité --- Causalité (Physique) --- MATHEMATICS / Probability & Statistics / General --- Théorie de l'estimation --- Causalité --- Causalité (Physique)
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