Screen LibraryMaking a difference : essays on the philosophy of causation /
"Making a difference' presents fifteen original essays on causation and counterfactuals by an international team of experts. Collectively, they represent the state of the art on these topics. The essays in this volume are inspired by the life and work of Peter Menzies, who made a differenc...
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Oxford University Press,
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| Publisher Address: | Oxford, United Kingdom : |
| Publication Dates: | 2017. |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
| Edition: | First edition. |
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| Summary: |
"Making a difference' presents fifteen original essays on causation and counterfactuals by an international team of experts. Collectively, they represent the state of the art on these topics. The essays in this volume are inspired by the life and work of Peter Menzies, who made a difference in the lives of students, colleagues, and friends. Topics covered include: the semantics of counterfactuals, agency theories of causation, the context-sensitivity of causal claims, structural equation models, mechanisms, mental causation, causal exclusion argument, free will, and the consequence argument."--Publisher's website. |
| Carrier Form: | viii, 336 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: |
9780198746911 0198746911 |
| Index Number: | BD541 |
| CLC: | B025.5 |
| Call Number: | B025.5/M235 |
| Contents: |
Introduction / Causal counterfactuals and impossible worlds / Two interpretations of the Ramsey test / Pragmatic explanations of the proportionality constraint on causation / Causation, intervention, and agency : Woodward on Menzies and Price / The glue of the universe / Actual causation: What's the use? / Can structural equations explain how mechanisms explain? / The problem of counterfactual isomorphs / Cause without default / Difference-making, closure and exclusion / The program model, difference-makers, and the exclusion problem / Intervening in the exclusion argument / My brain made me do it : the exclusion argument against free will, and what's wrong with It / Epiphenomenalism for functionalists / The consequence argument disarmed : an interventionist perspective / |