Making a Difference: Essays on the Philosophy of Causation by Helen Beebee,Christopher Hitchcock,Huw Price

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By Helen Beebee,Christopher Hitchcock,Huw Price

creating a distinction provides fifteen unique essays on causation and counterfactuals by way of a world staff of specialists. jointly, they signify the cutting-edge on those subject matters. The essays during this quantity are encouraged by means of the lifestyles and paintings of Peter Menzies, who made a distinction within the lives of scholars, colleagues, and associates. themes lined comprise: the semantics of counterfactuals, business enterprise theories of causation, the context-sensitivity of causal
claims, structural equation types, mechanisms, psychological causation, causal exclusion argument, loose will, and the end result argument.

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