Causation in Science / / Yemima Ben-Menahem.
This book explores the role of causal constraints in science, shifting our attention from causal relations between individual events--the focus of most philosophical treatments of causation-to a broad family of concepts and principles generating constraints on possible change. Yemima Ben-Menahem loo...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2018] ©2018 |
| Year of Publication: | 2018 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (224 p.) :; 3 b/w illus. |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- 1. From Causal Relations to Causal Constraints
- 2. Determinism and Stability
- 3. Determinism and Stability in Physics
- 4. Determinism and Locality
- 5. Symmetries and Conservation Laws
- 6. The Principle of Least Action
- 7. Causation and Reduction
- References
- Index