List of Contributors ........................................... xi
Introduction .................................................... l
Helen Beebee, Christopher Hitchcock, and Peter Menzies
PART I. THE HISTORY OF CAUSATION
1. The Ancient Greeks ......................................... 21
Sarah Broadie
2. The Medievals .............................................. 40
John Marenbon
3. The Early Moderns .......................................... 55
Kenneth Clatterbaugh
4. Hume ....................................................... 73
Don Garrett
5. Kant ....................................................... 92
Eric Watkins
6. The Logical Empiricists ................................... 108
Michael Stöltzner
PART II. STANDARD APPROACHES TO CAUSATION
7. Regularity Theories ....................................... 131
Stathis Psillos
8. Counterfactual Theories ................................... 158
L.A. Paul
9. Probabilistic Theories .................................... 185
Jon Williamson
10. Causal Process Theories ................................... 213
Phil Dowe
11. Agency and Interventionist Theories ....................... 234
James R Woodward
PART III. ALTERNATIVE APPROACHES TO CAUSATION
12. Causal Powers and Capacities .............................. 265
Stephen Mumford
13. Anti-Reductionism ......................................... 279
John W. Carroll
14. Causal Modelling .......................................... 299
Christopher Hitchcock
15. Mechanisms ................................................ 315
Stuart Glennan
16. Causal Pluralism .......................................... 326
Peter Godfrey-Smith
PART IV. THE METAPHYSICS OF CAUSATION
17. Platitudes and Counterexamples ............................ 341
Peter Menzies
18. Causes, Laws, and Ontology ................................ 368
Michael Tooley
19. Causal Relata ............................................. 387
Douglas Ehring
20. The Time-Asymmetry of Causation ........................... 414
Huw Price and Brad Weslake
PART V. THE EPISTEMOLOGY OF CAUSATION
21. The Psychology of Causal Perception and Reasoning ........ 447
David Danks
22. Causation and Observation ................................ 471
Helen Beebee
23. Causation and Statistical Inference ...................... 498
Clark Glymour
PART VI. CAUSATION IN PHILOSOPHICAL THEORIES
24. Mental Causation ......................................... 523
Cei Maslen, Terry Horgan, and Helen Daly
25. Causation, Action, and Free Will ......................... 554
Alfred R. Mele
26. Causation and Ethics ..................................... 575
Carolina Sartorio
27. Causal Theories of Knowledge and Perception .............. 592
Ram Neta
28. Causation and Semantic Content ........................... 607
Frank Jackson
29. Causation and Explanation ................................ 619
Peter Lipton
30. Causation and Reduction .................................. 632
Paul Humphreys
PART VII. CAUSATION IN OTHER DISCIPLINES
31. Causation in Classical Mechanics ......................... 649
Marc Lange
32. Causation in Statistical Mechanics ....................... 661
Lawrence Sklar
33. Causation in Quantum Mechanics ........................... 673
Richard Healey
34. Causation in Spacetime Theories .......................... 687
Carl Hoefer
35. Causation in Biology ..................................... 707
Samir Okasha
36. Causation in the Social Sciences ......................... 726
Harold Kincaid
37. Causation in the Law ..................................... 744
Jane Stapleton
Index ......................................................... 771
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