Title | Cause and chance [electronic resource] : causation in an indeterministic world / edited by Phil Dowe and Paul Noordhof |
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Imprint | London ; New York : Routledge, 2004 |
Connect to | http://www.netLibrary.com/urlapi.asp?action=summary&v=1&bookid=105238 |
Descript | viii, 211 p. : ill. 25 cm |
Counterfactuals and the benefit of hindsight / Dorothy Edgington -- Chance-lowering causes / Phil Dowe -- Chance-changing causal processes / Helen Beebee -- Counterfactual theories, pre-emption, and persistence / Douglas Ehring -- Probability and causation / Michael Tooley -- Analysing chancy causation without appeal to chance-raising / Stephen Barker -- Routes, processes and chance-lowering causes / Chris Hitchcock -- Interdeterministic causation and varieties of chance-raising / Murali Ramachandran -- Probabilistic cause, edge conditions, late pre-emption and discreet cases / Igal Kvart -- Prospects for a counterfactual theory of causation / Paul Noordhof