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050 4 _aBD591
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082 0 4 _a122
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100 1 _aKistler, Max,
_eauthor.
245 1 0 _aMetaphysics of causation /
_cMax Kistler.
264 1 _aCambridge :
_bCambridge University Press,
_c2024.
300 _a1 online resource (74 pages) :
_bdigital, PDF file(s).
336 _atext
_btxt
_2rdacontent
337 _acomputer
_bc
_2rdamedia
338 _aonline resource
_bcr
_2rdacarrier
490 1 _aCambridge elements. Elements in metaphysics,
_x2633-9862
500 _aTitle from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 10 Jan 2025).
506 0 _aOpen Access.
_fUnrestricted online access
_2star
520 _aThis Element presents the main attempts to account for causation as a metaphysical concept, in terms of 1) regularities and laws of nature, 2) conditional probabilities and Bayes nets, 3) necessitation between universals and causal powers, 4) counterfactual dependence, 5) interventions and causal models, and 6) processes and mechanisms. None of these accounts can provide a complete reductive analysis. However, some provide the means to distinguish several useful concepts of causation, such as total cause, contributing cause, direct and indirect cause, and actual cause. Moreover, some of these accounts can be construed so as to complement each other. The last part presents some contemporary debates: on the relation between grounding and causation, eliminativism with respect to causation in physics, the challenge against 'downward' causation from the Closure and Exclusion principles, robust and proportional causation, and degrees of causation. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.
650 0 _aCausation.
650 0 _aMetaphysics.
776 0 8 _iPrint version:
_z9781009500340
830 0 _aCambridge elements.
_pElements in metaphysics,
_x2633-9862.
856 4 0 _uhttps://doi.org/10.1017/9781009260800
999 _c10114
_d10114