Causes and coincidences /

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Author / Creator:Owens, David (David J.)
Imprint:Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1992.
Description:xii, 188 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Language:English
Series:Cambridge studies in philosophy
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/1330196
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ISBN:0521416507
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.

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505 0 0 |g I.  |t The Inexplicability of a Coincidence.  |t What is a coincidence?  |t The inexplicability of a coincidence: agglomerativity.  |t The inexplicability of a coincidence: transitivity.  |t Explanation and laws --  |g 2.  |t Causes and Laws.  |t Causal and nomological relations.  |t Some Humean theses.  |t Laws.  |t An argument for necessity?  |t Conclusion --  |g 3.  |t Events and Non-Causal Explanations.  |t Davidson.  |t Lewis.  |t Causation as causal explanation --  |g 4.  |t Causal Explanation.  |t Empirical content.  |t Causal explanation.  |t Non-causal explanation.  |t Constitutive explanation and event constitution --  |g 5.  |t The Direction of Causal Explanation.  |t Causal forks.  |t Coincidences and the direction of causation.  |t Dummett's apple.  |t Experience and causation.  |t Some objections.  |t Knowledge and time --  |g 6.  |t Levels of Causation.  |t The primacy of physics.  |t Reductionism and causal pervasion.  |t Reduction.  |t Autonomy and reduction.  |t Autonomy and causal pervasion --  |g 7.  |t Deviant Causal Chains.  |t The causal theory of perception.  |t Perception and physiology.  |t Perception and teleology.  |t The causal theory of memory --  |g 8.  |t Causation in Action.  |t The causal theory of action.  |t Is decision theory empirical?  |t The autonomy of psychology.  |t Deviance in action.  |t Conclusion: Whither causal realism? 
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