By Helen Beebee,Christopher Hitchcock,Peter Menzies
have causal efficacy, and in ethics, no matter if there's a ethical contrast among acts and omissions and even if the ethical worth of an act will be judged in line with its outcomes. And causation is a contested proposal in different fields of enquiry, resembling biology, physics, and the law.
This e-book presents an in-depth and accomplished review of those and different subject matters, in addition to the historical past of the causation debate from the traditional Greeks to the logical empiricists. The chapters supply surveys of latest debates, whereas usually additionally advancing novel and arguable claims; and every encompasses a entire bibliography and recommendations for extra studying. The publication is hence the main accomplished resource of data approximately causation at present to be had, and should be
invaluable for upper-level undergraduates via to expert philosophers.
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