TY  - BOOK
AU  - Beebee, Helen
AU  - Hitchcock,Christopher
AU  - Menzies,Peter
TI  - The Oxford Handbook of Causation
SN  - 9780199642588
U1  - N22 
PY  - 2012///
CY  - Oxford
PB  - Oxford University Press
N1  - includes index and biblioraphy; 1. The history of Causation   The ancient greeks.....21  The medievals ...........40  The early moderns .........55  Hume .......73  Kant...........92  The logical Empiricists......108  2. Standard approaches to causation   regularity theories.....131  Counterfactual theories .........158  Probabilistic theories.......185  Causal process interventionist theories .........234  3. Alternative approaches to causation   Casual power and capacities .........265  Anti-reductionism .........279  Causal modelling ..........299  Mechanisms.........315  Causal pluralism .....326  4. The metaphysics of Causation   Platitudes and counterexamples...................341  Cause, laws, and ontology ............368  Causal Relata...........387  The time - asymmetry of Causation ............414  5. The epistemology of Causation   The psychology of causal perception and reasoning .............447  Causation and observation ..............471  Causation and statistical inference ..............498  6. Causation in philosophical theories   Mental causation ............523  Causation , action , and free will.........554  Causation and Ethics .........575  Causal theories of Knowledge and perception .........592  Causation and semantic content ...........607  Causation and explanation ............619  Causation and reduction ............632  7. Causation in other disciplines   Causation in Classical Mechanics.......649  Cauation in Statistical Mechanics..............661  Causation in Quantum mechanics..........673  Causation in specetime theories .........687  Causation in the social Science ..........726  Causation in the law ..........744
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