The Oxford Handbook of Causation

Description

Causation is a central topic in many areas of philosophy, including metaphysics, epistemology, philosophy of mind, ethics, history of philosophy, and philosophy of science. Thirty-seven specially written chapters by some of the world's leading philosophers provide the most comprehensive critical guide available to issues surrounding causation.

• The ultimate reference work on a fundamental but puzzling aspect of the universe
• Broad and deep coverage of the subject
• Fascinating new essays from an eminent international team of contributors

About the Author(s)

Edited by Helen Beebee, University of Birmingham, Christopher Hitchcock, California Institute of Technology, and Peter Menzies, Macquarie University, Sydney

Helen Beebee is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Birmingham

Christopher Hitchcock is Professor of Philosophy at the California Institute of Technology

Peter Menzies is Professor of Philosophy at Macquarie University, Sydney

Table of Contents

Introduction, Helen Beebee, Christopher Hitchcock and Peter Menzies.
1:The Ancient Greeks, Sarah Broadie
2:The Medievals, John Marenbon
3:The Early Moderns, Kenneth Clatterbaugh
4:Hume, Don Garrett
5:Kant, Eric Watkins
6:The Logical Empiricists, Michael Stöltzner
7:Regularity Theories, Stathis Psillos
8:Counterfactual Theories, L.A. Paul
9:Probabilistic Theories, Jon Williamson
10:Causal Process Theories, Phil Dowe
11:Agency and Interventionist Theories, James Woodward
12:Causal Powers and Capacities, Stephen Mumford
13:Anti-Reductionism, John Carroll
14:Causal Modelling, Christopher Hitchcock
15:Mechanisms, Stuart Glennan
16:Causal Pluralism, Peter Godfrey-Smith
17:Platitudes and Counterexamples, Peter Menzies
18:Causes, Laws and Ontology, Michael Tooley
19:Causal Relata, Douglas Ehring
20:The Time-Asymmetry of Causation, Huw Price and Brad Weslake
21:The Psychology of Causal Perception and Reasoning, David Danks
22:Causation and Observation, Helen Beebee
23:Causation and Statistical Inference, Clark Glymour
24:Mental Causation, Cei Maslen, Terry Horgan and Helen Daly
25:Causation, Action, and Free Will, Alfred Mele
26:Causation and Ethics, Carolina Sartorio
27:Causal Theories of Knowledge and Perception, Ram Neta
28:Causation and Semantic Content, Frank Jackson
29:Causation and Explanation, Peter Lipton
30:Causation and Reduction, Paul Humphreys
31:Causation in Classical Mechanics, Marc Lange
32:Causation in Statistical Mechanics, Lawrence Sklar
33:Causation in Quantum Mechanics, Richard Healey
34:Causation in Spacetime Theories, Carl Hoefer
35:Causation in Biology, Samir Okasha
36:Causation in the Social Sciences, Harold Kincaid
37:Causation in the Law, Jane Stapleton