Causation, Physics, and the Constitution of Reality: Russell's Republic RevisitedHuw Price, Richard Corry Clarendon Press, 2007 - 403 pàgines The difference between cause and effect seems obvious and crucial in ordinary life, yet missing from modern physics. Almost a century ago, Bertrand Russell called the law of causality 'a relic of a bygone age'. In this important collection 13 leading scholars revisit Russell's revolutionary conclusion, discussing one of the most significant and puzzling issues in contemporary thought. |
Continguts
1 A Case for Causal Republicanism? | 1 |
2 Causation as Folk Science | 11 |
3 What Russell Got Right | 45 |
4 Causation with a Human Face | 66 |
5 Isolation and Folk Physics | 106 |
6 Agency and Causation | 120 |
7 Pragmatic Causation | 156 |
8 Causation in Context | 191 |
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