Causation, Physics, and the Constitution of Reality
Subtitle: Russell's Republic Revisited
Contributors: Huw Price (Editor); Richard Corry (Editor)
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: March 26, 2007
Language: eng
Number of pages: 416
ISBN-13: 9780199278190
First sentence: In 1912, in the lull between Principia Mathematica and the Great War, Bertrand Russell turned a famously iconoclastic eye on the problem of causation: All philosophers, of every school, imagine that causation is one of the fundamental axioms or postulates