عنوان

Physical causation /

0521039754

0521780497

9780521039758

9780521780490

b767430

Physical causation /

[Book]

Phil Dowe.

New York :

Cambridge University Press,

2000.

ix, 224 pages :

illustrations ;

24 cm.

Cambridge studies in probability, induction, and decision theory

Includes bibliographical references (pages 211-219) and index.

"Physical Causation discusses in a systematic way an original, positive account of causation: the conserved quantities account of causal processes that Phil Down has been developing over the last ten years." "Dowe offers a account of causation based firmly in contemporary science. The book describes causal processes and interactions in terms of conserved quantities: a causal process is the world line of an object that 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 new 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 of time travel."--Jacket.

Causality (Physics)

08.35 philosophy of science.

Causaliteit.

Causality (Physics)

Causality (Physics)

Causation.

Kausalität

Natuurkunde.

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