Cause for Thought
Subtitle: An Essay in Metaphysics
Publisher: McGill-Queen's University Press
Published: 2014
Language: eng
Number of pages: 144
ISBN-13: 9780773543539
Subjects: Causation; Metaphysics
Description: "Does the fact that everything has a cause imply that all events are causally determined? Drawing on discussions from the history of philosophy, John Burbidge's Cause for Thought captures the diverse dynamics found in physics, chemistry, biology, animal psychology, and rational action. At each level, forms of activity emerge that cannot be reduced to the functioning of simpler, more elementary components."--back cover.