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Causation - A User's Guide (Paperback)
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Causation - A User's Guide (Paperback)
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Causation is at once familiar and mysterious. Many believe that the
causal relation is not directly observable, but that we
nevertheless can somehow detect its presence in the world. Common
sense seems to have a firm grip on causation, and much work in the
natural and social sciences relies on the idea. Yet neither common
sense nor extensive philosophical debate has led us to anything
like agreement on the correct analysis of the concept of causation,
or an account of the metaphysical nature of the causal relation.
Contemporary debates are driven by opposing motivations,
conflicting intuitions, and unarticulated methodological
assumptions. Causation: A User's Guide cuts a clear path through
this confusing but vital landscape. L. A. Paul and Ned Hall guide
the reader through the most important philosophical treatments of
causation, negotiating the terrain by taking a set of examples as
landmarks. Special attention is given to counterfactual and related
analyses of causation. Using a methodological principle based on
the close examination of potential counterexamples, they clarify
the central themes of the debate about causation, and cover
questions about causation involving omissions or absences,
preemption and other species of redundant causation, and the
possibility that causation is not transitive. Along the way, Paul
and Hall examine several contemporary proposals for analyzing the
nature of causation and assess their merits and overall
methodological cogency. The book is designed to be of value both to
trained specialists and those coming to the problem of causation
for the first time. It provides the reader with a broad and
sophisticated view of the metaphysics of the causal relation.
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