The Oxford Handbook of Causation

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