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Causes and Coincidences (Paperback)
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Causes and Coincidences (Paperback)
Series: Cambridge Studies in Philosophy
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In an important departure from theories of causation, David Owens
proposes that coincidences have no causes, and that a cause is
something which ensures that its effects are no coincidence. In
Causes and Coincidences, he elucidates the idea of a coincidence as
an event which can be analysed into constituent events, the
nomological antecedents of which are independent of each other. He
also suggests that causal facts can be analysed in terms of
non-causal facts, including relations of necessity. Thus, causation
is defined in terms of coincidence, and coincidence without
reference to causation. David Owens challenges the ideas associated
with Hume, Davidson and Lewis, constructing a theory which
distinguishes nomological necessity and sufficiency from their
logical counterparts. He is able to offer novel solutions to the
major problems of causation, including the direction of causation,
the logical form of causal statements, the distinction betwen
causal connections and logical connections, and the relationship
between psychological and physical causation.
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