Causation and its basis in fundamental physics /

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Author / Creator:	Kutach, Douglas.
Imprint:	New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2013.
Description:	1 online resource
Language:	English
Series:	Oxford studies in philosophy of science Oxford studies in philosophy of science.
Subject:	Causality (Physics) Physics -- Philosophy. Causality (Physics) Physics -- Philosophy. Electronic books.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11382681

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ISBN:	9780199936212 0199936218 9780199936205 019993620X 0199936218
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Notes:	Includes bibliographical references. Print version record.
Summary:	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.
Other form:	Print version: Kutach, Douglas. Causation and its basis in fundamental physics 9780199936205

Table of Contents:

""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""
""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""
""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. Goodmanâ€?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""
""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""
""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. â€?Past-directed then Future-directedâ€? 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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