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介绍了regularity, counterfactual和physical transference三种理论,然后讨论了plural和primitive的处理方式,最后是作者自己的dispositionalism(我很好奇这种夸张的所谓causal power能不能用modal property来deflation掉)。
评分这个话题算形而上学吗……?
评分这个话题算形而上学吗……?
评分思辨性很强,主题也很有趣重要。浏览了各家学说和各自的局限、反例;叙述的顺序也是层层递进,各家你方唱罢我登场,非常利于读者登堂入室。哲学书就该这样有趣又有启发性。里面的一些涉及科学理论的东西有点幼稚外行,这恐怕是其唯一的缺点吧。
评分思辨性很强,主题也很有趣重要。浏览了各家学说和各自的局限、反例;叙述的顺序也是层层递进,各家你方唱罢我登场,非常利于读者登堂入室。哲学书就该这样有趣又有启发性。里面的一些涉及科学理论的东西有点幼稚外行,这恐怕是其唯一的缺点吧。
Stephen Mumford is Professor of Metaphysics at the Department of Philosophy, University of Nottingham, and Dean of the Faculty of Arts. He has written several books on this topic, including Dispositions (OUP, 1998), Laws in Nature (Routledge, 2004), Getting Causes from Powers (with Rani Lill Anjum, OUP, 2011), and Metaphysics: A Very Short Introduction (OUP, 2012).
Rani Lill Anjum is Research Fellow at the Norwegian University of Life Science where she leads the Causation in Science research project (CauSci). CauSci is a global network for those interested in a scientifically informed philosophy of causation. She has written many popular articles in magazines and newspapers and delivered numerous talks for non-specialist audiences. She is the co-author of Getting Causes from Powers (OUP, 2011).
Causation is the most fundamental connection in the universe. Without it, there would be no science or technology. There would be no moral responsibility either, as none of our thoughts would be connected with our actions and none of our actions with any consequences. Nor would we have a system of law because blame resides only in someone having caused injury or damage.
Any intervention we make in the world around us is premised on there being causal connections that are, to a degree, predictable. It is causation that is at the basis of prediction and also explanation. This Very Short Introduction introduces the key theories of causation and also the surrounding debates and controversies. Do causes produce their effects by guaranteeing them? Do causes have to precede their effects? Can causation be reduced to the forces of physics? And are we right to think of causation as one single thing at all?
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