Causation in science:
This book explores the role of causal constraints in science, shifting our attention from causal relations between individual events--the focus of most philosophical treatments of causation-to a broad family of concepts and principles generating constraints on possible change. Yemima Ben-Menahem loo...
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| Zusammenfassung: | This book explores the role of causal constraints in science, shifting our attention from causal relations between individual events--the focus of most philosophical treatments of causation-to a broad family of concepts and principles generating constraints on possible change. Yemima Ben-Menahem looks at determinism, locality, stability, symmetry principles, conservation laws, and the principle of least action-causal constraints that serve to distinguish events and processes that our best scientific theories mandate or allow from those they rule out. Ben-Menahem's approach reveals that causation is just as relevant to explaining why certain events fail to occur as it is to explaining events that do occur. She investigates the conceptual differences between, and interrelations of, members of the causal family, thereby clarifying problems at the heart of the philosophy of science. Ben-Menahem argues that the distinction between determinism and stability is pertinent to the philosophy of history and the foundations of statistical mechanics, and that the interplay of determinism and locality is crucial for understanding quantum mechanics. Providing historical perspective, she traces the causal constraints of contemporary science to traditional intuitions about causation, and demonstrates how the teleological appearance of some constraints is explained away in current scientific theories such as quantum mechanics |
| Beschreibung: | xiii, 201 Seiten Illustrationen 25 cm |
| ISBN: | 0691174938 9780691174938 |
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Preface ix
Acknowledgments xiii
1 From Causal Relations to Causal Constraints 1
2 Determinism and Stability 35
3 Determinism and Stability in Physics 61
4 Determinism and Locality 82
5 Symmetries and Conservation Laws 105
6 The Principle of Least Action: From Teleology
to Causality 134
7 Causation and Reduction 158
References 183
Index 193
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