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Fundamental Causation - Physics, Metaphysics, and the Deep Structure of the World (Paperback)
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Fundamental Causation - Physics, Metaphysics, and the Deep Structure of the World (Paperback)
Series: Routledge Studies in Metaphysics
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Fundamental Causation addresses issues in the metaphysics of
deterministic singular causation, the metaphysics of events,
property instances, facts, preventions, and omissions, as well as
the debate between causal reductionists and causal
anti-reductionists. The book also pays special attention to
causation and causal structure in physics. Weaver argues that
causation is a multigrade obtaining relation that is transitive,
irreflexive, and asymmetric. When causation is singular,
deterministic and such that it relates purely contingent events,
the relation is also universal, intrinsic, and well-founded. He
shows that proper causal relata are events understood as states of
substances at ontological indices. He then proves that causation
cannot be reduced to some non-causal base, and that the best
account of that relation should be unashamedly primitivist about
the dependence relation that underwrites its very nature. The book
demonstrates a distinctive realist and anti-reductionist account of
causation by detailing precisely how the account outperforms
reductionist and competing anti-reductionist accounts in that it
handles all of the difficult cases while overcoming all of the
general objections to anti-reductionism upon which other
anti-reductionist accounts falter. This book offers an original and
interesting view of causation and will appeal to scholars and
advanced students in the areas of metaphysics, philosophy of
science, and philosophy of physics.
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