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Causation, physics, and the constitution of reality : Russell's republic revisited / edited by Huw Price and Richard Corry

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Oxford : Clarendon Press ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2007.
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1 online resource (403 pages) : illustrations
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Price, Huw, 1953-, Corry, Richard, and University of Sydney. Centre for Time
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English.
Contents
A case for causal republicanism? / Huw Price and Richard Corry -- Causation as folk science / John D. Norton -- What Russell got right / Christopher Hitchcock -- Causation with a human face / Jim Woodward -- Isolation and folk physics / Adam Elga -- Agency and causation / Arif Ahmed -- Pragmatic causation / Antony Eagle -- Causation in context / Peter Menzies -- Hume on causation : the projectivist interpretation / Helen Beebee -- Causal perspectivalism / Huw Price -- Counterfactuals and the Second Law / Barry Loewer -- The physical foundations of causation / Douglas Kutach -- Causation, counterfactuals, and entropy / Mathias Frisch.
Summary
The difference between cause and effect seems obvious and crucial in ordinary life, yet missing from modern physics. Almost a century ago, Bertrand Russell called the law of causality 'a relic of a bygone age'. In this important collection 13 leading scholars revisit Russell's revolutionary conclusion, discussing one of the most significant and puzzling issues in contemporary thought. - ;In philosophy as in ordinary life, cause and effect are twin pillars on which much of our thought seems based. But almost a century ago, Bertrand Russell declared that modern physics leaves these pillars witho.
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9781429470872 (electronic bk.)
1429470879 (electronic bk.)
0191515485 (electronic bk.)
9780191515484 (electronic bk.)
9780199278183 (Cloth)
0199278180 (Cloth)
9780199278190 (Paper)
0199278199 (Paper)
128116478X
9781281164780
9786611164782
6611164782
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Collection of a conference on "Causal republicanism" organized by the Centre for Time of the University of Sydney, July, 2003.
Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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