TY - BOOK ID - 77900669 TI - The facts of causation. PY - 2013 SN - 113486034X 128033097X 9786610330973 0203031075 9780203031070 9780415097796 0415097797 6610330972 9780415197564 0415197562 0415097797 0415197562 9781134860296 9781134860333 9781134860340 PB - Hoboken : Taylor and Francis, DB - UniCat KW - Causation. KW - Causation KW - Speculative Philosophy KW - Philosophy KW - Philosophy & Religion KW - Causality KW - Cause and effect KW - Effect and cause KW - Final cause KW - Beginning KW - God KW - Metaphysics KW - Necessity (Philosophy) KW - Teleology UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:77900669 AB - Everything we do relies on causation. We eat and drink because this causes us to stay alive. Courts tell us who causes crimes, criminology tell us what causes people to commit them. D.H. Mellor shows us that to understand the world and our lives we must understand causation.The Facts of Causation, now available in paperback, is essential reading for students and for anyone interested in reading one of the ground-breaking theories in metaphysics. We cannot understand the world and our place in it without understanding causation. Yet a complete account of the nature and implication ER -