Physical causation /
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Author / Creator: | Dowe, Phil. |
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Imprint: | Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2000. |
Description: | ix, 224 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
Language: | English |
Series: | Cambridge studies in probability, induction, and decision theory Cambridge studies in probability, induction, and decision theory. |
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Format: | E-Resource Print Book |
URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/8557952 |
ISBN: | 0521780497 9780521780490 |
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Notes: | Includes bibliographical references (p. 211-219) and index. |
Summary: | "Physical Causation discusses in a systematic way an original, positive account of causation: the conserved quantities account of causal processes that Phil Down has been developing over the last ten years." "Dowe offers a account of causation based firmly in contemporary science. The book describes causal processes and interactions in terms of conserved quantities: a causal process is the world line of an object that possesses a conserved quantity, and a causal interaction involves the exchange of conserved quantities. Further, things that are properly called cause and effect are appropriately connected by a set of causal processes and interactions. The distinction between cause and effect is explained in terms of a new version of the fork theory: the direction of a certain kind of ordered pattern of events in the world. This particular version has the virtue that it allows for the possibility of backwards causation, and therefore of time travel."--Jacket. |
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