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PHYSICAL CAUSATION
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By: |
Phil Dowe, Brian Skyrms, Ernest W. Adams |
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Hardback |
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£87.00 |
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ISBN 10: |
0521780497 |
ISBN 13: |
9780521780490 |
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CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS |
Pub. date: |
3 July, 2000 |
Series: |
Cambridge Studies in Probability, Induction and Decision Theory |
Pages: |
236 |
Description: |
This book, published in 2000, discusses in a systematic way, a positive account of causation. |
Synopsis: |
This book, published in 2000, is a clear account of causation based firmly in contemporary science. Dowe discusses in a systematic way, a positive account of causation: the conserved quantities account of causal processes which he has been developing over the last ten years. The book describes causal processes and interactions in terms of conserved quantities: a causal process is the worldline of an object which possesses a conserved quantity, and a causal interaction involves the exchange of conserved quantities. Further, things that are properly called cause and effect are appropriately connected by a set of causal processes and interactions. The distinction between cause and effect is explained in terms of a version of the fork theory: the direction of a certain kind of ordered pattern of events in the world. This particular version has the virtue that it allows for the possibility of backwards causation, and therefore time travel. |
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18 b/w illus. 1 table |
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UK |
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Cambridge University Press |
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