Causation, physics, and the constitution of reality [electronic resource] : Russell's republic revisited / edited by Huw Price and Richard Corry.

Contributor(s): Price, Huw, 1953- | Corry, Richard | University of Sydney. Centre for Time | ProQuest (Firm)Material type: TextTextPublication details: Oxford : New York : Clarendon Press ; Oxford University Press, 2007Description: 403 p. : illSubject(s): Causation -- CongressesGenre/Form: Electronic books.DDC classification: 122 LOC classification: BD541 | .C1935 2007Other classification: 02.02 Online resources: Click to View
Contents:
A case for causal republicanism? / Huw Price and Richard Corry -- Causation as folk science / John D. Norton -- What Russell got right / Christopher Hitchcock -- Causation with a human face / Jim Woodward -- Isolation and folk physics / Adam Elga -- Agency and causation / Arif Ahmed -- Pragmatic causation / Antony Eagle -- Causation in context / Peter Menzies -- Hume on causation : the projectivist interpretation / Helen Beebee -- Causal perspectivalism / Huw Price -- Counterfactuals and the Second Law / Barry Loewer -- The physical foundations of causation / Douglas Kutach -- Causation, counterfactuals, and entropy / Mathias Frisch.
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Collection of a conference on "Causal republicanism" organized by the Centre for Time of the University of Sydney, July, 2003.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

A case for causal republicanism? / Huw Price and Richard Corry -- Causation as folk science / John D. Norton -- What Russell got right / Christopher Hitchcock -- Causation with a human face / Jim Woodward -- Isolation and folk physics / Adam Elga -- Agency and causation / Arif Ahmed -- Pragmatic causation / Antony Eagle -- Causation in context / Peter Menzies -- Hume on causation : the projectivist interpretation / Helen Beebee -- Causal perspectivalism / Huw Price -- Counterfactuals and the Second Law / Barry Loewer -- The physical foundations of causation / Douglas Kutach -- Causation, counterfactuals, and entropy / Mathias Frisch.

Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.

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