Causal Asymmetry
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Causal Asymmetries
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Author : Daniel M. Hausman
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 1998-07-28
Causal Asymmetries written by Daniel M. Hausman and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1998-07-28 with Business & Economics categories.
This book, by one of the pre-eminent philosophers of science writing today, offers the most comprehensive account available of causal asymmetries. Causation is asymmetrical in many different ways. Causes precede effects; explanations cite causes not effects. Agents use causes to manipulate their effects; they don't use effects to manipulate their causes. Effects of a common cause are correlated; causes of a common effect are not. This book explains why a relationship that is asymmetrical in one of these regards is asymmetrical in the others. Hausman discovers surprising hidden connections between theories of causation and traces them all to an asymmetry of independence. This is a major book for philosophers of science that will also prove insightful to economists and statisticians.
Causal Asymmetry
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Author : Douglas Ehring
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1981
Causal Asymmetry written by Douglas Ehring and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1981 with Causation categories.
The Temporal Asymmetry Of Causation
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Author : Alison Fernandes
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2023-06-01
The Temporal Asymmetry Of Causation written by Alison Fernandes and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-06-01 with Philosophy categories.
Causes always seem to come prior to their effects. What might explain this asymmetry? Causation's temporal asymmetry isn't straightforwardly due to a temporal asymmetry in the laws of nature—the laws are, by and large, temporally symmetric. Nor does the asymmetry appear due to an asymmetry in time itself. This Element examines recent empirical attempts to explain the temporal asymmetry of causation: statistical mechanical accounts, agency accounts and fork asymmetry accounts. None of these accounts are complete yet and a full explanation of the temporal asymmetry of causation will likely require contributions from all three programs.
Causal Asymmetry The Explanatory Constraint
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Author : Zhiheng Tang
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2011-04-01
Causal Asymmetry The Explanatory Constraint written by Zhiheng Tang and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-04-01 with Philosophy categories.
Causation is an asymmetric relation - if C causes E, then E does not cause C. In this book it is argued that: 1) Two major theories of causation - the regularity theory and the counterfactual theory - cannot adequately account for causal asymmetry; 2) Causal asymmetry consists in the explanatory asymmetry between cause and effect; 3) Generally, the notion of causation is dependent on the notion of explanation; in other words, explanation sets a conceptual constraint on causation. In reaching these conclusions, issues about simultaneous causation, backwards causation and absence causation are discussed.
Causal Asymmetry
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Author : Douglas Edward Ehring
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1988
Causal Asymmetry written by Douglas Edward Ehring and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1988 with categories.
Causal Reasoning In Physics
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Author : Mathias Frisch
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2014-10-09
Causal Reasoning In Physics written by Mathias Frisch and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-10-09 with Mathematics categories.
This book argues, partly through detailed case studies, for the importance of causal reasoning in physics.
Lewis Account Of Causal Asymmetry
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Author : Kerry Mulvania
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1998
Lewis Account Of Causal Asymmetry written by Kerry Mulvania and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1998 with Causation categories.
Causal Asymmetry Across Cultures Assigning Causal Roles In Symmetric Physical Settings
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Author : Andrea Bender
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2011
Causal Asymmetry Across Cultures Assigning Causal Roles In Symmetric Physical Settings written by Andrea Bender and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011 with categories.
Causation And Its Basis In Fundamental Physics
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Author : Douglas Kutach
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Release Date : 2013-10
Causation And Its Basis In Fundamental Physics written by Douglas Kutach and has been published by Oxford University Press, USA this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-10 with Philosophy categories.
This book is the first comprehensive attempt to solve what Hartry 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 of causation in physics. If the world evolves fundamentally according to laws of physics, what place can be found for the causal regularities and principles identified by the special sciences? Douglas Kutach answers this question by invoking a novel distinction between fundamental and derivative reality and a complementary conception of reduction. He then constructs a framework that allows all causal regularities from the sciences to be rendered in terms of fundamental relations. By drawing on a methodology that focuses on explaining the results of specially crafted experiments, Kutach avoids the endless task of catering to pre-theoretical judgments about causal scenarios. This volume is a detailed case study that uses fundamental physics to elucidate causation, but technicalities are eschewed so that a wide range of philosophers can profit. The book is packed with innovations: new models of events, probability, counterfactual dependence, influence, and determinism. These lead to surprising implications for topics like Newcomb's paradox, action at a distance, Simpson's paradox, and more. Kutach explores the special connection between causation and time, ultimately providing a never-before-presented explanation for the direction of causation. Along the way, readers will discover that events cause themselves, that low barometer readings do cause thunderstorms after all, and that we humans routinely affect the past more than we affect the future.
Causation And Persistence
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Author : Douglas Ehring
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Release Date : 1997
Causation And Persistence written by Douglas Ehring and has been published by Oxford University Press, USA this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1997 with Causation categories.
5. The Alphabet of Causation; Mackie on Qualitative Persistence; Partial Trope Persistence; A Theory of Causation; Summary; 6. Causal Asymmetry; Two Preliminary Concepts; A Definition of Causal Priority; Notes; Bibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; W.