Causation and counterfactuals /

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Bibliographic Details
Imprint:	Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, c2004.
Description:	viii, 481 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Language:	English
Series:	Representation and mind
Subject:	Causation. Counterfactuals (Logic) Causation. Counterfactuals (Logic)
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/5253732

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Other authors / contributors:	Collins, John David. Hall, Edward J. (Edward Jonathan), 1966- Paul, L. A. (Laurie Ann), 1966-
ISBN:	0262033178 (alk. paper) 0262532565 (pb. : alk. paper)
Notes:	"A Bradford book." Includes bibliographical references (p. [459]-467) and indexes.

Table of Contents:

Contributors
1. Counterfactuals and Causation: History, Problems, and Prospects
2. Trumping Preemption
3. Causation as Influence
4. Preemptive Prevention
5. Advertisement for a Sketch of an Outline of a Prototheory of Causation
6. Difference-making in Context
7. Causation and the Price of Transitivity
8. Aspect Causation
9. Two Concepts of Causation
10. Void and Object
11. Causing and Nothingness
12. For Facts as Causes and Effects
13. Preempting Preemption
14. Causes, Contrasts, and the Nontransitivity of Causation
15. Causation: Probabilistic and Counterfactual Analyses
16. A Counterfactual Analysis of Indeterministic Causation
17. Do All and Only Causes Raise the Probabilities of Effects?
18. Causation, Counterfactuals, and the Third Factor
19. Going through the Open Door Again: Counterfactual versus Singularist Theories of Causation
References
General Index
Index of Examples

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