D H Mellor Facts of Causation
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D. H. Mellor
The Facts of Causation
D. H. Mellor
London:
Routledge, 1995, pp. xii+251
This book presents a complete theory of causation. It covers all kinds of causing and affecting, of both events and facts: deterministic and indeterministic, mental and physical, transparent and opaque. It shows what makes a cause explain, be evidence for, and be a means of bringing about, its effects, and why causation entails the laws of nature that determine the kinds of facts our world contains. It also shows how causation distinguishes time from space, makes time linear, gives it its direction and enables us to perceive it.
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Preface Introduction
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2 The temporal parts of events 3 The identity of events 4 Events and changes 5 Davidson's argument for events 6 Events for the sake of argument 2 Negative causes and effects 3 Existential and particular causes and effects 4 Facts first? 2 Essential and inessential facts 3 Identity criteria 4 How particulars cause and affect each other 5 Opaque causation 6 Transparent causation 7 Transparent and factual causation 2 Properties and relations, predicates and concepts 3 Causation between particulars 4 Facts and facta 5 Facta as causes and effects 6 The facta of causation 2 Properties and laws 3 The facta of propensity 4 Causal structures 5 The structure of causal facta 2 Facta and laws 3 Laws and law statements 4 Laws and properties 5 Nominalism 6 Identifying properties 7 Complex properties 2 Properties and particulars 3 Nomic relations 4 Laws and properties 5 Nominalism 6 Identifying properties 7 Complex properties 2 Simultaneous causation 3 Causal loops 4 Contiguity 5 Causability and precedence 6 The causal form of inner sense Bibliography |
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