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Author
Title
Causation and explanation / Stathis Psillos.
Published
Ithaca, N.Y. : McGill-Queen's University Press, [2002]
Copyright
©2002
Call Number
BD541 .P85 2002
Cover Title
Causation & explanation
ISBN
0773524681 (pbk.)
0773524673
0773524673
Description
xi, 324 pages ; 21 cm.
System Control No.
(OCoLC)50581800
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages [309]-316) and index.
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Table of Contents
Preface
Abbreviations
Introduction
1
I
Causation
1
Hume on causation
19
2
Regularities and singular causation
57
3
Causation and counterfactuals
81
4
Causation and mechanism
107
II
Laws of nature
5
The regularity view of laws
137
6
Laws as relations among universals
159
7
Alternative approaches to laws
179
III
Explanation
8
Deductive-nomological explanation
215
9
Statistical explanation
241
10
Explanation of labs
263
11
The metaphysics of explanation
281
Notes
295
References
309
Index
317