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Physical causation /

紀錄類型:	書目-語言資料,印刷品 : Monograph/item
正題名/作者:	Physical causation // Phil Dowe.
作者:	Dowe, Phil,
面頁冊數:	1 online resource (ix, 224 pages) :digital, PDF file(s). :
附註:	Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
標題:	Causality (Physics) -
電子資源:	https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511570650
ISBN:	9780511570650 (ebook)

Physical causation /
Dowe, Phil,

Physical causation /Phil Dowe. - 1 online resource (ix, 224 pages) :digital, PDF file(s). - Cambridge studies in probability, induction and decision theory. - Cambridge studies in probability, induction, and decision theory..

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Horses for Courses: Causation and the Task of Philosophy --1.

This book, published in 2000, is a clear account of causation based firmly in contemporary science. Dowe discusses in a systematic way, a positive account of causation: the conserved quantities account of causal processes which he has been developing over the last ten years. The book describes causal processes and interactions in terms of conserved quantities: a causal process is the worldline of an object which possesses a conserved quantity, and a causal interaction involves the exchange of conserved quantities. Further, things that are properly called cause and effect are appropriately connected by a set of causal processes and interactions. The distinction between cause and effect is explained in terms of a version of the fork theory: the direction of a certain kind of ordered pattern of events in the world. This particular version has the virtue that it allows for the possibility of backwards causation, and therefore time travel.

ISBN: 9780511570650 (ebook)Subjects--Topical Terms:

576358
Causality (Physics)

LC Class. No.: QC6.4.C3 / D69 2000

Dewey Class. No.: 530/.01

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