Causation and persistence : a theory of causation / Douglas Ehring.
Material type: TextSeries: Oxford University Press on-linePublication details: New York ; Oxford [England] : Oxford University Press, 1997.Description: 1 online resource (x, 191 pages)Content type:- text
- computer
- online resource
- 1429400226
- 9781429400220
- 0195355342
- 9780195355345
- 9780195107944
- 0195107942
- 1280529032
- 9781280529030
- 9786610529032
- 6610529035
- 122 20
- BD541 .E37 1997eb
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 181-184) and index.
1. Preemption -- 2. The Significance of Preemption -- 3. Causal Relata -- 4. Qualitative Persistence -- 5. The Alphabet of Causation -- 6. Causal Asymmetry.
The author shows the inadequacy of received theories of causation, and, introducing conceptual devices of his own, provides an account of causation as the persistence over time of individual properties or "tropes."
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