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UNINA9910458067003321 |
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Titolo |
Causation, physics, and the constitution of reality [[electronic resource] ] : Russell's republic revisited / / edited by Huw Price and Richard Corry |
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Oxford, : Clarendon Press |
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New York, : Oxford University Press, 2007 |
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ISBN |
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0-19-151548-5 |
1-281-16478-X |
9786611164782 |
1-4294-7087-9 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (414 p.) |
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Altri autori (Persone) |
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PriceHuw <1953-> |
CorryRichard |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Causation |
Electronic books. |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Collection of a conference on "Causal republicanism" organized by the Centre for Time of the University of Sydney, July, 2003. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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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. |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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The difference between cause and effect seems obvious and crucial in ordinary life, yet missing from modern physics. Almost a century ago, Bertrand Russell called the law of causality 'a relic of a bygone age'. In this important collection 13 leading scholars revisit Russell's revolutionary conclusion, discussing one of the most significant and puzzling issues in contemporary thought. - ;In philosophy as in |
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