Causation

Stephen Mumford is Professor of Metaphysics at the Department of Philosophy, University of Nottingham, and Dean of the Faculty of Arts. He has written several books on this topic, including Dispositions (OUP, 1998), Laws in Nature (Routledge, 2004), Getting Causes from Powers (with Rani Lill Anjum, OUP, 2011), and Metaphysics: A Very Short Introduction (OUP, 2012).Rani Lill Anjum is Research Fellow at the Norwegian University of Life Science where she leads the Causation in Science research project (CauSci). CauSci is a global network for those interested in a scientifically informed philosophy of causation. She has written many popular articles in magazines and newspapers and delivered numerous talks for non-specialist audiences. She is the co-author of Getting Causes from Powers (OUP, 2011).

出版者:OUP Oxford

作者:Mumford, Stephen

页数:144

出版时间:2013-11-28

价格:GBP 7.99

装帧:Paperback

isbn号码:9780199684434

图书标签:哲学VSI逻辑学形而上学因果关系哲学史分析哲学英文

Causation is the most fundamental connection in the universe. Without it, there would be no science or technology. There would be no moral responsibility either, as none of our thoughts would be connected with our actions and none of our actions with any consequences. Nor would we have a system of law because blame resides only in someone having caused injury or damage.

Any intervention we make in the world around us is premised on there being causal connections that are, to a degree, predictable. It is causation that is at the basis of prediction and also explanation. This Very Short Introduction introduces the key theories of causation and also the surrounding debates and controversies. Do causes produce their effects by guaranteeing them? Do causes have to precede their effects? Can causation be reduced to the forces of physics? And are we right to think of causation as one single thing at all?

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短小精悍，就像引言里所说：“这本书是对于任何需要知道什么是因果关系的人都是个很好的出发点，而‘任何需要知道的人’，我猜想是每一个人。”我基本每一页都写了笔记，这次论文不敢写意识啊自由意志啊也是因为觉得连因果都没有理解透，还是不要妄想理解高级认知了。新年第一天，早上看完了本书，中午和蛋蛋还有二宝吃了火锅，暴雨天，幸福

短小精悍，就像引言里所说：“这本书是对于任何需要知道什么是因果关系的人都是个很好的出发点，而‘任何需要知道的人’，我猜想是每一个人。”我基本每一页都写了笔记，这次论文不敢写意识啊自由意志啊也是因为觉得连因果都没有理解透，还是不要妄想理解高级认知了。新年第一天，早上看完了本书，中午和蛋蛋还有二宝吃了火锅，暴雨天，幸福

介绍了regularity, counterfactual和physical transference三种理论，然后讨论了plural和primitive的处理方式，最后是作者自己的dispositionalism(我很好奇这种夸张的所谓causal power能不能用modal property来deflation掉)。

短小精悍，就像引言里所说：“这本书是对于任何需要知道什么是因果关系的人都是个很好的出发点，而‘任何需要知道的人’，我猜想是每一个人。”我基本每一页都写了笔记，这次论文不敢写意识啊自由意志啊也是因为觉得连因果都没有理解透，还是不要妄想理解高级认知了。新年第一天，早上看完了本书，中午和蛋蛋还有二宝吃了火锅，暴雨天，幸福

短小精悍，就像引言里所说：“这本书是对于任何需要知道什么是因果关系的人都是个很好的出发点，而‘任何需要知道的人’，我猜想是每一个人。”我基本每一页都写了笔记，这次论文不敢写意识啊自由意志啊也是因为觉得连因果都没有理解透，还是不要妄想理解高级认知了。新年第一天，早上看完了本书，中午和蛋蛋还有二宝吃了火锅，暴雨天，幸福