Causation: the Basics
"Causation: The Basics explores questions about what causes are, and how we come to know them, describe them, and put them to use. The book begins with an introduction to the history of philosophical thinking about causation, followed by a series of chapters introducing important contemporary a...
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Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group
2024
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| Ausgabe: | 1st ed. |
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| Zusammenfassung: | "Causation: The Basics explores questions about what causes are, and how we come to know them, describe them, and put them to use. The book begins with an introduction to the history of philosophical thinking about causation, followed by a series of chapters introducing important contemporary accounts of causation. It concludes with chapters on causation and agency, causal discovery, and causal explanation. Key questions explored in the book include: What distinguishes correlation from causation? How are the causes of singular events related to more general patterns of cause and effect? How are commonsense, scientific, and legal conceptions of causation related? Can certain occurrences be singled out as the main or principle causes of some effect? Is there a place in the world's causal structure for human agency and free will? While introducing the major philosophical debates about the nature of causation, Causation: The Basics emphasizes the uses and challenges of causal reasoning as it occurs in the sciences, engineering, medicine, and other areas of human life. With a glossary of key terms and suggestions for further reading, the book provides readers with a clear and concise introduction to both theoretical and practical questions about causation."--Page [4] of Cover |
| Beschreibung: | xii, 201 Seiten |
| ISBN: | 9781032061542 9781032061535 |
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CONTENTS Preface xi 1 Some Basic Questions about Causation 1 What kind of question about causation? 3 Science or common sense? 5 Singular or generic? 6 Connection or difference making? 7 Reducible or fundamental? 8 Fact or convention? io Looking forward 10 Suggestions for further reading n 2 Thinking About Causation: A Selective History 13 Aristotle 13 Descartes 15 Newton 17 Hume 20
CONTENTS Kant Mill Russell Suggestions for further reading 3 Causes, Regularities, and Laws The conditional analysis of necessity and sufficiency Humean regularity theory INUS conditions Regularities without causation Deep regularity theories Laws of nature Humean answers to the questions about causation Suggestions for further reading 4 Causation, Probability, and Chance What do probabilities mean? Probabilistic causality Simpson’s paradox Singular causation and doing it the hard way Assessing probabilistic theories of causation Suggestions for further reading 5 Causation and Counterfactuals Counterfactuals: the basics Lewis’s counterfactual theory The causal relation and its relata Counterfactuals and the law Suggestions for further reading
CONTENTS Causal Models and Interventions 86 Causal models 86 Other representations of causal structure 92 Causation and intervention Assessing interventionism 95 98 Suggestions for further reading 99 Causal Processes and Mechanisms 100 Salmon’s theory 101 Conserved quantity theories 104 Evaluating process theories Mechanisms 105 108 Mechanisms and causation 115 What’s at the bottom? 117 Suggestions for further reading 119 Causes, Purposes, and Agency 120 Final causes 121 Reasons and agency 123 Mental causation 131 Suggestions for further reading 137 Finding Causes 138 Observation 140 Experiment 143 Finding Causes in statistical data 151 Putting together the evidence Looking backward for actual causes 155 158 Suggestions for further reading 161
X CONTENTS io Choosing Causes Explanation: the basics Causal selection principles Choosing causes: some challenging cases Final thoughts Suggestions for further reading Glossary References Index
Causation: The Basics explores questions about what causes are, and how we come to know them, describe them, and put them to use. The book begins with an introduction to the history of philosophical thinking about causation, followed by a series of chapters introducing important contemporary accounts of causation. It concludes with chapters on causation and agency, causal discovery, and causal explanation. Key questions explored in the book include: • • • • • What distinguishes correlation from causation? How are the causes of singular events related to more general patterns of cause and effect? How are commonsense, scientific, and legal conceptions of causation related? Can certain occurrences be singled out as the main or principle causes of some effect? Is there a place in the world's causal structure for human agency and free will? While introducing the major philosophical debates about the nature of causation, Causation: The Basics emphasizes the uses and challenges of causal reasoning as it occurs in the sciences, engineering, medicine, and other areas of human life. With a glossary of key terms and suggestions for further reading, the book provides readers with a clear and concise introduction to both theoretical and practical questions about causation. |
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