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Causation /

Causation / edited by Ernest Sosa and Michael Tooley. - Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1993. - viii, 252 p. : ill. ; 21 cm. - Oxford readings in philosophy . - Oxford readings in philosophy. .

Includes bibliographical references (p. [245]-249) and index.

Causes and conditions / John L. Mackie -- Defects of the necessary condition analysis of causation / Michael Scriven -- Causes and events : Mackie on causation / Jaegwon Kim -- Causal relations / Donald Davidson -- Causality and determination / G.E.M. Anscombe -- On the logic and epistemology of the causal relation / G.H. von Wright -- On the nature and the observability of the causal relation / C.J. Ducasse -- Probabilistic causality ; Causality : production and propagation / Wesley C. Salmon -- Causation : reductionism versus realism / Michael Tooley -- Causation / David Lewis -- Causes and counterfactuals / Jaegwon Kim -- Lewis's programme / Paul Horwich -- Event causation : the counterfactual analysis / Jonathan Bennett -- Varieties of causation / Ernest Sosa.

ISBN: 0198750935 9780198750932 0198750943 (pbk.) 9780198750949 (pbk.)

LCCN: 92028442

Nat. Bib. No.: GB93-17980

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Causation.

Subjects--Index Terms: Causation

LC Class. No.: BD 591 / .C26 1993