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Causation and Counterfactuals
Language: en
Pages: 500
Authors: John Collins
Categories: Philosophy
Type: BOOK - Published: 2004-06-25 - Publisher: MIT Press

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One philosophical approach to causation sees counterfactual dependence as the key to the explanation of causal facts: for example, events c (the cause) and e (t
Causation and Counterfactuals
Language: en
Pages: 481
Authors: John David Collins
Categories: Philosophy
Type: BOOK - Published: 2004 - Publisher: Bradford Books

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A collection of important recent work on thecounterfactual analysis of causation.
Mental Causation
Language: en
Pages: 235
Authors: Thomas Kroedel
Categories: Philosophy
Type: BOOK - Published: 2019-12-19 - Publisher: Cambridge University Press

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Presents a comprehensive account of how the mind causes things to happen in the physical world. This book is also available as Open Access.
Understanding Counterfactuals, Understanding Causation
Language: en
Pages:
Authors: Christoph Hoerl
Categories: Philosophy
Type: BOOK - Published: 2011-10-27 - Publisher: Oxford University Press

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How are causal judgements such as 'The ice on the road caused the traffic accident' connected with counterfactual judgements such as 'If there had not been any
Making a Difference
Language: en
Pages: 349
Authors: Helen Beebee
Categories: Philosophy
Type: BOOK - Published: 2017 - Publisher: Oxford University Press

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"Making a difference' presents fifteen original essays on causation and counterfactuals by an international team of experts. Collectively, they represent the st