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001 2007006104
003 DLC
005 20150110075459.0
008 070212s2007 paua b 101 0 eng
010 $a 2007006104
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035 $a(OCoLC)ocm84838290
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050 00 $aBD541$b.T45 2007
082 00 $a122.09$222
245 00 $aThinking about causes :$bfrom Greek philosophy to modern physics /$cedited by Peter Machamer and Gereon Wolters.
260 $aPittsburgh, Pa. :$bUniversity of Pittsburgh Press,$cc2007.
300 $aviii, 318 p. :$bill. ;$c24 cm.
440 0 $aPittsburgh-Konstanz series in the philosophy and history of science
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 $aThe concept of causality in Greek thought / Jürgen Mittelstrass -- Moral causes : the role of physical explanation in ancient ethics / Brad Inwood -- Ancient Stoicism, "robust epistemology," and moral philosophy / Emidio Spinelli -- Powerless causes : the case of sacramental causality / Marilyn McCord Adams -- From Scholasticism to modern physics and back : the transformation of traditional causal concepts in Descartes and Occasionalism / Robert Schnepf -- Kant on transcendental laws / Eric Watkins -- Freedom from necessity : the influence of J.S. Mill's politics on his concept of causation / Laura J. Snyder -- Mill on causation and the historical turn in philosophy of science : some historical and methodological remarks / Paolo Parrini -- Sprachkritik and the problem of historical understanding : Kant, Dilthey, Wittgenstein, and Weber / Henry Krips -- Plurality in causality / Raffaella Campaner and Maria Carla Galavotti -- How to be a causal pluralist / Christopher Hitchcock -- Do the causal principles of modern physics contradict causal anti-fundamentalism? / John D. Norton -- Epiphenomenalism : the dos and the don'ts / Larry Shapiro and Elliott Sober -- On selection of, for, with, and against / Peter McLaughlin -- Causality in economics / Sir Clive W. J. Granger -- The core of free will / Wolfgang Spohn.
650 0 $aCausation$xHistory$vCongresses.
700 1 $aMachamer, Peter K.
700 1 $aWolters, Gereon.
856 41 $3Table of contents only$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0711/2007006104.html
856 42 $3Contributor biographical information$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0708/2007006104-b.html
856 42 $3Publisher description$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0708/2007006104-d.html