Theories of Causality: From Antiquity to the Present 1st Edition

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What types of entities qualify as "causes" and "effects"? What is the relationship between cause and effect? How are causal claims to be assessed? The first question deals with the structure of the world; the second is about theories that interpret the relationship of causes to effects; while the third has to do with proper procedure in science and everyday life. This volume is a wide-ranging history of answers that have been given to these three questions, and their relationship to scientific understanding.

Losee presents a number of theories of causality within a historical survey that emphasizes the interrelationship between these theories and developments in science. His analysis displays the strengths and weaknesses of these theories so as to contribute to our present understanding of causal relatedness.

Among the positions discussed are those of Aristotle, Hume, Kant, Mill, Salmon, Lewis, and Woodward. Losee's analysis displays the strengths and weaknesses of theories that identify causal relatedness with regularity of sequence, probability increase, energy transfer, exchange of a conserved quantity, counterfactual dependence, and inferability.These theories are judged, in part,by their ability to resolvedifficulties posed by instances of overdetermination,causation by omission, preventive causation, and causation by disconnection. Since applications of the theories to these instances disagree, a strategy of employing multiple concepts of causation is examined.

Theories of Causality also describes the particular difficulties for causal analysis posed by quantum mechanics. One such difficulty is the prohibition against combining a causal analysis of a quantum process with a spatio-temporal description of that process.

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“Theories of Causality: From Antiquity to the Present considers issues of cause and effect, and how they apply in both science and daily living. Historical background accompanies a number of causal theories and their interpretations, with chapters analyzing their strengths and weaknesses. Any college-level collection strong in applied philosophy will find this a winning consideration!”

—The Midwest Book Review

“The material presented in the book… provide[s] a fairly complete overview of the most important philosophical accounts of causality since Aristotle.”

—Henk W. de Regt, Metascience

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John Losee is James Renwick Hogg Professor of Philosophy Emeritus at Lafayette College. The best known of his publications is A Historical Introduction to the Philosophy of Science, which was translated into twelve languages, and Theories of Causality.

Hardcover: 218 pages
Publisher: Routledge; 1 edition (September 15, 2011)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 141281832X
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