Causation and its basis in fundamental physics /
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| Author / Creator: | Kutach, Douglas. |
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| Imprint: | New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2013. |
| Description: | 1 online resource |
| Language: | English |
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| 520 | 8 | |a This text provides a comprehensive attempt to solve what Henry Field has called 'the central problem in the metaphysics of causation': the problem of reconciling the need for causal notions in the special sciences with the limited role fo causation in physics. | |
| 505 | 0 | |a ""Cover""; ""Contents""; ""Preface""; ""1. Empirical Analysis and the Metaphysics of Causation""; ""1.1. Empirical Analysis""; ""1.1.1. The Distinctive Features of Empirical Analysis""; ""1.2. Empirical Analysis of the Metaphysics of Causation""; ""1.2.1. Effective Strategies""; ""1.3. Empirical Analysis of the Non-metaphysical Aspects of Causation""; ""1.4. Causation as Conceptually Tripartite""; ""1.5. A Sketch of the Metaphysics of Causation""; ""1.6. Fundamental and Derivative""; ""1.6.1. The Kinetic Energy Example""; ""1.6.2. Some Constitutive Principles of Fundamentality"" | |
| 505 | 8 | |a ""1.7. Abstreduction""""1.8. STRICT Standards and RELAXED Standards""; ""1.9. Limitations on the Aspirations of Empirical Analysis""; ""1.10. Comparison of Empirical and Orthodox Analysis""; ""1.11. Summary""; ""PART I: The Bottom Conceptual Layer of Causation""; ""2. Fundamental Causation""; ""2.1. Preliminaries""; ""2.2. Terminance""; ""2.3. The Space-time Arena""; ""2.4. Classical Gravitation""; ""2.5. Relativistic Electromagnetism""; ""2.6. Content Independence""; ""2.7. Continuity and Shielding""; ""2.8. Transitivity""; ""2.9. Determinism""; ""2.10. Stochastic Indeterminism"" | |
| 505 | 8 | |a ""2.11. Non-stochastic Indeterminism""""2.12. General Relativity""; ""2.13. Quantum Mechanics""; ""2.14. Summary""; ""PART II: The Middle Conceptual Layer of Causation""; ""3. Counterfactuals and Difference-making""; ""3.1. General Causation""; ""3.2. Counterfactuals""; ""3.3. Goodman�s Account of Counterfactuals""; ""3.4. The Nomic Conditional""; ""3.5. Comparison to Ordinary Language Conditionals""; ""3.6. Prob-dependence""; ""3.7. Contrastive Events""; ""3.8. Summary""; ""4. Derivative Causation""; ""4.1. Influence""; ""4.2. Prob-influence""; ""4.3. General Causation"" | |
| 505 | 8 | |a ""4.4. Temporally Extended Events""""4.5. Idiomatic Differences between Promotion and Causation""; ""4.6. Aspect Promotion""; ""4.7. Promotion by Omission""; ""4.8. Contrastivity""; ""4.9. Transitivity""; ""4.10. Continuity""; ""4.11. Shielding""; ""4.12. Partial Influence""; ""4.13. Summary""; ""5. The Empirical Content of Promotion""; ""5.1. The Promotion Experiment""; ""5.2. Insensitivity Considerations""; ""5.3. Thermodynamics and Statistical Mechanics""; ""5.4. The Asymmetry of Bizarre Coincidences""; ""5.5. The Analogy to Thermal and Mechanical Energy"" | |
| 505 | 8 | |a ""5.6. Broad and Narrow Promotion""""5.7. Inferences from Empirical Data to Promotion""; ""5.8. Why There Are Effective Strategies""; ""5.9. Mechanistic Theories of Causation""; ""6. Backtracking Influence""; ""6.1. The Direction of Influence""; ""6.2. Proof of Causal Directness""; ""6.3. A Search for Empirical Phenomena""; ""6.4. �Past-directed then Future-directed� Influence""; ""7. Causal Asymmetry""; ""7.1. The Empirical Content of the Causal Asymmetry""; ""7.2. Causation and Advancement""; ""7.3. An Explanation of the Advancement Asymmetry"" | |
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