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Title Causation, physics, and the constitution of reality [electronic resource] : Russell's republic revisited / edited by Huw Price and Richard Corry.

Imprint Oxford : Clarendon Press ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2007.

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Description 403 p. : ill.
Note Collection of a conference on "Causal republicanism" organized by the Centre for Time of the University of Sydney, July, 2003.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents A case for causal republicanism? / Huw Price and Richard Corry -- Causation as folk science / John D. Norton -- What Russell got right / Christopher Hitchcock -- Causation with a human face / Jim Woodward -- Isolation and folk physics / Adam Elga -- Agency and causation / Arif Ahmed -- Pragmatic causation / Antony Eagle -- Causation in context / Peter Menzies -- Hume on causation : the projectivist interpretation / Helen Beebee -- Causal perspectivalism / Huw Price -- Counterfactuals and the Second Law / Barry Loewer -- The physical foundations of causation / Douglas Kutach -- Causation, counterfactuals, and entropy / Mathias Frisch.
Reproduction Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
Subject Causation -- Congresses.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author Price, Huw, 1953-
Corry, Richard.
University of Sydney. Centre for Time.
ProQuest (Firm)
ISBN 9780199278190 (alk. paper)
0199278199 (alk. paper)
9780199278183 (alk. paper)
0199278180 (alk. paper)

 
    
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