Title | Causation and Laws of Nature [electronic resource] / edited by Howard Sankey |
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Imprint | Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 1999 |
Connect to | http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-94-015-9229-1 |
Descript | XVI, 359 p. online resource |
I. Laws And Causes -- Making Sense of Laws of Physics -- II. Scientific Essentialism -- Causal Powers and Laws of Nature -- Comment on Ellis -- Response to David Armstrong -- Scientific Ellisianism -- Bigelowโs Worries About Scientific Essentialism -- The Naturalness Theory of Laws -- Nomic Necessity and Natural States: Comment on the Leckey-Bigelow Theory of Laws -- III. Laws, Quantities and Dispositions -- Are the Laws of Nature Deductively Closed? -- Laws of Nature as Relations Between Quantities? -- Real Law in Peirceโs โPragmaticismโ (Or: How Scholastic Realism Met the Scientific Method) -- Finkish Dispositions -- Comments on David Lewis: โFinkish Dispositionsโ -- Laws and Cosmology -- Comment on Smart -- IV. Causation and Theories of Causation -- The Open Door: Counterfactual versus Singularist Theories of Causation -- Causal Dependence and Laws -- Causation is the Transfer of Information -- Good Connections: Causation and Causal Processes -- Probabilistic Causal Structure -- Intrinsic versus Extrinsic Conceptions of Causation -- The Role of History in Microphysics -- No Interaction Without Prior Correlation: Comment on Huw Price -- Notes on Contributors