An edition of Thinking about causes (2007)

Thinking about causes

from Greek philosophy to modern physics

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Thinking about Causes: From Greek Philosophy to Modern Physics (Pitt Konstanz Phil Hist Scienc)
May 10, 2007, University of Pittsburgh Press
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2007, University of Pittsburgh Press
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2007, University of Pittsburgh Press
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Table of Contents

The concept of causality in Greek thought / Jürgen Mittelstrass
Moral causes : the role of physical explanation in ancient ethics / Brad Inwood
Ancient Stoicism, "robust epistemology," and moral philosophy / Emidio Spinelli
Powerless causes : the case of sacramental causality / Marilyn McCord Adams
From Scholasticism to modern physics and back : the transformation of traditional causal concepts in Descartes and Occasionalism / Robert Schnepf
Kant on transcendental laws / Eric Watkins
Freedom from necessity : the influence of J.S. Mill's politics on his concept of causation / Laura J. Snyder
Mill on causation and the historical turn in philosophy of science : some historical and methodological remarks / Paolo Parrini
Sprachkritik and the problem of historical understanding : Kant, Dilthey, Wittgenstein, and Weber / Henry Krips
Plurality in causality / Raffaella Campaner and Maria Carla Galavotti
How to be a causal pluralist / Christopher Hitchcock
Do the causal principles of modern physics contradict causal anti-fundamentalism? / John D. Norton
Epiphenomenalism : the dos and the don'ts / Larry Shapiro and Elliott Sober
On selection of, for, with, and against / Peter McLaughlin
Causality in economics / Sir Clive W. J. Granger
The core of free will / Wolfgang Spohn

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references and index

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Pittsburgh, Pa
Series
Pittsburgh-Konstanz series in the philosophy and history of science
Genre
Congresses

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Library of Congress
BD541 .T45 2007

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viii, 318 p. :
Number of pages
318

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OL17228363M
ISBN 10
0822943093
ISBN 13
9780822943099
LCCN
2007006104
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1349177

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