Stathis Psillos divides his account into three sections: causation, laws of nature, and explanation. He begins the causation section with Hume's classic reductive account and then focuses on the subsequent division between Humean and non-Humean accounts, examining topics such as regularities and singular causation, causation and counterfactuals, and causation and mechanism.In the section on laws of nature, Psillos considers both the regularity view of laws and laws as relations among universals as well as alternative approaches to laws. In the final section on explanation he examines in detail the issues arising from deductive-nomological explanation and statistical explanation before considering the explanation of laws and the metaphysics of explanation. Accessible to students of all levels the author provides an excellent introduction to one of the most enduring problems of philosophy.--pub. desc.
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- Includes bibliographical references (p. [309]-316) and index
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- Dewey Decimal Classification Number
- 122
- Dewey Decimal Edition Number
- 22
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- 9780773583955 0773524673
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- BD541
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- P85 2002eb
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- 1 electronic text (xi, 324 p.)
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Table of Contents
- Cover 1
- Contents 8
- Preface 10
- Abbreviations 13
- Introduction 14
- I: Causation 30
- 1 Hume on causation 32
- 2 Regularities and singular causation 70
- 3 Causation and counterfactuals 94
- 4 Causation and mechanism 120
- II: Laws of nature 148
- 5 The regularity view of laws 150
- 6 Laws as relations among universais 172
- 7 Alternative approaches to laws 192
- III: Explanation 226
- 8 Deductive-nomological explanation 228
- 9 Statistical explanation 254
- 10 Explanation of laws 276
- 11 The metaphysics of explanation 294
- Notes 308
- References 322
- Index 330
- A 330
- B 330
- C 330
- D 332
- E 332
- F 333
- G 333
- H 333
- I 334
- J 334
- K 334
- L 334
- M 335
- N 335
- O 336
- P 336
- Q 336
- R 336
- S 337
- T 337
- U 337
- V 337
- W 337
- Y 337
