Thinking about causes
Subtitle: from Greek philosophy to modern physics
By: edited by Peter Machamer and Gereon Wolters
Contributors: Machamer, Peter K; Wolters, Gereon
Series: Pittsburgh-Konstanz series in the philosophy and history of science
Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Pittsburgh, Pa
Language: eng
Number of pages: 318
ISBN-13: 9780822943099
Subjects: Causation -- History -- Congresses
Genres: Congresses
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index
Table of contents: title: The concept of causality in Greek thought / Jürgen Mittelstrass; title: Moral causes : the role of physical explanation in ancient ethics / Brad Inwood; title: Ancient Stoicism, "robust epistemology," and moral philosophy / Emidio Spinelli; title: Powerless causes : the case of sacramental causality / Marilyn McCord Adams; title: From Scholasticism to modern physics and back : the transformation of traditional causal concepts in Descartes and Occasionalism / Robert Schnepf; title: Kant on transcendental laws / Eric Watkins; title: Freedom from necessity : the influence of J.S. Mill's politics on his concept of causation / Laura J. Snyder; title: Mill on causation and the historical turn in philosophy of science : some historical and methodological remarks / Paolo Parrini; title: Sprachkritik and the problem of historical understanding : Kant, Dilthey, Wittgenstein, and Weber / Henry Krips; title: Plurality in causality / Raffaella Campaner and Maria Carla Galavotti; title: How to be a causal pluralist / Christopher Hitchcock; title: Do the causal principles of modern physics contradict causal anti-fundamentalism? / John D. Norton; title: Epiphenomenalism : the dos and the don'ts / Larry Shapiro and Elliott Sober; title: On selection of, for, with, and against / Peter McLaughlin; title: Causality in economics / Sir Clive W. J. Granger; title: The core of free will / Wolfgang Spohn