Normal view MARC view ISBD view

Causation, physics, and the constitution of reality Russell's republic revisited / [electronic resource] : edited by Huw Price and Richard Corry. - Oxford : New York : Clarendon Press ; Oxford University Press, 2007. - 403 p. : ill.

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.
Palo Alto, Calif. :
ebrary,
2013.
Available via World Wide Web.
Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.

ISBN:

LCCN:

Nat. Bib. No.: GBA687550 bnb

Nat. Bib. Agency Control No.: Uk

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Causation--Congresses.

Index Terms--Genre/Form:
Electronic books.

LC Class. No.: BD541 / .C1935 2007eb

Dewey Class. No.: 122