The Logic of Causation
Publisher: Author
Published: 2003
Place of publication: Geneva, Switzerland
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 272
Description: Includes only Phases I and II of the research.
Table of contents: title: Phase I - Macroanalysis; title: Chapter 1. The Paradigm of Causation	11; title: 1.	Causation.	11; title: 2.	The Paradigmic Determination.	12; title: Chapter 2. The Generic Determinations	16; title: 1.	Strong Determinations.	16; title: 2.	Parallelism of Strongs.	19; title: 3.	Weak Determinations.	21; title: 4.	Parallelism of Weaks.	28; title: 5.	The Four Genera of Causation.	29; title: 6.	Negations of Causation.	31; title: Chapter 3. The Specific Determinations	34; title: 1.	The Species of Causation.	34; title: 2.	The Joint Determinations.	36; title: 3.	The Significance of Certain Findings.	43; title: Chapter 4. Immediate Inferences	46; title: 1.	Oppositions.	46; title: 2.	Eductions.	47; title: 3.	The Directions of Causation.	55; title: Chapter 5. Causative Syllogism	58; title: 1.	Causal or Effectual Chains.	58; title: 2.	Some Instructive Examples.	59; title: 3.	Figures and Moods.	62; title: Chapter 6. List of Positive Moods	69; title: 1.	Valid and Invalid Moods.	69; title: 2.	Moods in Figure 1.	71; title: 3.	Moods in Figure 2.	75; title: 4.	Moods in Figure 3.	79; title: Chapter 7. Reduction of Positive Moods	85; title: 1.	Reduction.	85; title: 2.	Reductions in Figure 1.	90; title: 3.	Reductions in Figure 2.	96; title: 4.	Reductions in Figure 3.	102; title: Chapter 8. Matricial Analyses	109; title: 1.	Matricial Analysis.	109; title: 2.	Crucial Matricial Analyses in Figure 1.	112; title: 3.	Crucial Matricial Analyses in Figure 2.	127; title: 4.	Crucial Matricial Analyses in Figure 3.	133; title: Chapter 9. Squeezing Out More Information	141; title: 1.	The Interactions of Determinations.	141; title: 2.	Negative Moods.	145; title: 3.	Negative Conclusions from Positive Moods.	148; title: 4.	Imperfect Moods.	152; title: Chapter 10. Wrapping Up Phase One	155; title: 1.	Highlights of Findings.	155; title: 2.	The Modes of Causation.	157; title: 3.	Gaps and Loose Ends.	159; title: Appendix 1:	J. S. Mill’s Methods:  A Critical Analysis.	161; title: Preamble	161; title: 1.	The Joint Method of Agreement and Difference	162; title: 2.	The Method of Agreement	165; title: 3.	The Method of Difference	167; title: 4.	The Method of Residues	170; title: 5.	The Method of Concomitant Variations	172; title: Concluding Remarks	174; title: Phase Two: Microanalysis.; title: Chapter 11. Piecemeal Microanalysis.	179; title: 1.	Binary Coding and Unraveling.	179; title: 2.	The Generic Determinations.	181; title: 3.	Contraction and Expansion.	183; title: 4.	Intersection, Nullification and Merger.	187; title: 5.	Negation.	190; title: Chapter 12. Systematic Microanalysis.	193; title: 1.	Grand Matrices.	193; title: 2.	Moduses in a Two-Item Framework.	195; title: 3.	Catalogue of Moduses, for Three Items.	199; title: 4.	Enumeration of Moduses, for Three Items.	204; title: 5.	Comparing Frameworks.	206; title: Chapter 13. Some More Microanalyses.	209; title: 1.	Relative Weaks.	209; title: 2.	Items of Negative Polarity in Two-Item Framework.	212; title: 3.	Items of Negative Polarity in Three-Item Framework.	216; title: 4.	Categoricals and Conditionals.	221; title: Chapter 14. Main Three-Item Syllogisms.	231; title: 1.	Applying Microanalysis to Syllogism.	231; title: 2.	The Moduses of Premises.	233; title: 3.	The Moduses of Conclusions.	236; title: 4.	Dealing with Vaguer Propositions.	243; title: Chapter 15. Some More Three-Item Syllogisms.	246; title: 1.	Special Cases of Three-item Syllogism.	246; title: 2.	Dealing with Negatives.	256; title: Chapter 16. Outstanding Issues.	261; title: 1.	Four-Item Syllogism.	261; title: 2.	On Laws of Causation.	262; title: 3.	Interdependence.	267; title: 4.	Other Features of Causation Worthy of Study.	270; title: 5.	To Be Continued.	271