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9780773524682

Causation and Explanation

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    9780773524682

  • ISBN10:

    0773524681

  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2003-02-01
  • Publisher: McGill Queens Univ Pr
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Summary

Stathis Psillos divides his account into three sections: causation, laws of nature, and explanation. He begins the causation section with Hume's classic "reductive" account and then focuses on the subsequent division between Humean and non-Humean accounts, examining topics such as regularities and singular causation, causation and counterfactuals, and causation and mechanism.

Table of Contents

Preface ix
Abbreviations xiii
Introduction 1(18)
I Causation
Hume on causation
19(38)
Regularities and singular causation
57(24)
Causation and counterfactuals
81(26)
Causation and mechanism
107(30)
II Laws of nature
The regularity view of laws
137(22)
Laws as relations among universals
159(20)
Alternative approaches to laws
179(36)
III Explanation
Deductive-nomological explanation
215(26)
Statistical explanation
241(22)
Explanation of laws
263(18)
The metaphysics of explanation
281(14)
Notes 295(14)
References 309(8)
Index 317

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