Author: Douglas Ehring
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Keywords: causation, theory, persistence
Number of Pages: 240
Published: 1997-02-06
List price: $110.00
ISBN-10: 0195107942
ISBN-13: 9780195107944

Ehring shows the inadequacy of received theories of causation, and, introducing conceptual devices of his own, provides a wholly new account of causation as the persistence over time of individual properties, or "tropes."

Author: Evan Fale
Publisher: Routledge
Keywords: universals, causation
Number of Pages: 384
Published: 1990-06-07
List price: $135.00
ISBN-10: 0415044383
ISBN-13: 9780415044387

The world contains objective causal relations and universals, both of which are intimately connected. If these claims are true, they must have far-reaching consequences, breathing new life into the theory of empirical knowledge and reinforcing epistemological realism. Without causes and universals, Professor Fales argues, realism is defeated, and idealism or scepticism wins. Fales begins with a detailed analysis of David Hume’s argument that we have no direct experience of necessary connections between events, concluding that Hume was mistaken on this fundamental point. Then, adopting th

Authors:H. L. A. Hart, Tony Honoré,
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Keywords: law, causation
Number of Pages: 544
Published: 1985-06-27
List price: $99.00
ISBN-10: 0198254741
ISBN-13: 9780198254744

This new edition of the seminal 1959 work retains the original analysis of commonsense causal concepts, and includes hundreds of new decisions and a substantial preface in which criticisms are met and a rationale propounded for common-sense causal notions as an element in legal responsibility.

Author: Stathis Psillos
Publisher: McGill-Queen’s University Press
Keywords: explanation, causation
Number of Pages: 324
Published: 2002-02
List price: $24.95
ISBN-10: 0773524681
ISBN-13: 9780773524682

In the section on laws of nature, Psillos considers both the regularity view of laws and laws as relations among universals as well as alternative approaches to laws. In the final section on explanation he examines in detail the issues arising from deductive-nomological explanation and statistical explanation before considering the explanation of laws and the metaphysics of explanation. Accessible to students of all levels the author provides an excellent introduction to one of the most enduring problems of philosophy.

Author: Jens Harbecke
Publisher: Ontos Verlag
Keywords: causation, mental
Number of Pages: 434
Published: 2009-02-28
List price: $162.00
ISBN-10: 3938793945
ISBN-13: 9783938793947

This work systematically investigates a range of solutions for the philosophical problem of mental causation. The premises constituting the problem are analyed, then a survey is developed of the most popular theories on mental causation. Harbecke demonstrates why most of these canonical solutions must be considered deficient. In a third part, the "new compatibilists" approach to mental causation is explored, which is characteried by assertion of a non-identity-but-non-distinctness principle. The last part offers an alternative solution to the problem. On the basis of a certain set of

Author: Douglas Hodgson
Publisher: Ashgate
Keywords: causation, intervening, law
Number of Pages: 292
Published: 2008-07-21
List price: $114.95
ISBN-10: 0754673669
ISBN-13: 9780754673668

This volume provides a comprehensive and systematic study of the law of intervening causation (novus actus interveniens) to present an analysis of this particular judicial limitation of liability device. The work provides a structure from which to formulate core general legal principles and identify the various legal tests utilized by the courts. The book comprises of a comparative examination and analysis of the intervening causation case-law from England, Canada, the USA, Australia/New Zealand, and Ireland.

Author: Michael Tooley
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Keywords: causation, tense, time
Number of Pages: 424
Published: 2000-11-30
List price: $65.00
ISBN-10: 0198250746
ISBN-13: 9780198250746

Michael Tooley presents a major new philosophical theory of the nature of time, offering a powerful alternative to the traditional "tensed" and recent "tenseless" accounts of time. He argues for a dynamic conception of the universe, in which past, present, and future are not merely subjective features of experience. He claims that the past and the present are real, while the future is not. Tooley’s approach accounts for time in terms of causation. He therefore claims that the key to understanding the dynamic nature of the universe is to understand the nature of causation. Time, Tense, an