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The Oxford Handbook of Causation The Oxford Handbook of Causation
Menzies, Peter (Editor), Professor of Philosophy, Macquarie University
Hitchcock, Christopher (Editor), Professor of Philosophy, California Institute of Technology
Beebee, Helen (Editor), Professor of Philosophy, University of Birmingham
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Print publication date: 2009 Print ISBN-13: 978-0-19-927973-9
Published to Oxford Handbooks Online: January 2010
doi:10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199279739.001.0001


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Abstract: Introduction – The Ancient Greeks – The Medievals – The Early Moderns – Hume – Kant – The Logical Empiricists – Regularity Theories – Counterfactual Theories – Probabilistic Theories – Causal Process Theories – Agency and Interventionist Theories – Causal Powers and Capacities – Anti-Reductionism – Causal Modelling – Mechanisms – Causal Pluralism – Platitudes and Counterexamples – Causes, Laws, and Ontology – Causal Relata – The Time-Asymmetry of Causation – The Psychology of Causal Perception and Reasoning – Causation and Observation – Causation and Statistical Inference – Mental Causation – Causation, Action, and Free Will – Causation and Ethics – Causal Theories of Knowledge and Perception – Causation and Semantic Content – Causation and Explanation – Causation and Reduction – Causation in Classical Mechanics – Causation in Statistical Mechanics – Causation in Quantum Mechanics – Causation in Spacetime Theories – Causation in Biology – Causation in the Social Sciences – Causation in the Law

Keywords: cause, will, space, reductionism, reasoning, reason, process, power, pluralism, perception, Other, ontology, observation, model, metaphysics, mental causation, mechanism, logic, knowledge, inference, free will, explanation, ethics, epistemology, counterexample, content, causation, action
Introduction
Menzies, Peter
Hitchcock, Christopher
Beebee, Helen
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1. The Ancient Greeks*
Broadie, Sarah
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2. The Medievals
Marenbon, John
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3. The Early Moderns
Clatterbaugh, Kenneth
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4. Hume*
Garrett, Don
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5. Kant
Watkins, Eric
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6. The Logical Empiricists
Stöltzner, Michael
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7. Regularity Theories*
Psillos, Stathis
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9. Probabilistic Theories*
Williamson, Jon
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12. Causal Powers and Capacities
Mumford, Stephen
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13. Anti-Reductionism*
Carroll, John W.
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14. Causal Modelling
Hitchcock, Christopher
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15. Mechanisms
Glennan, Stuart
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16. Causal Pluralism*
Godfrey-Smith, Peter
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18. Causes, Laws, and Ontology
Tooley, Michael
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19. Causal Relata
Ehring, Douglas
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20. The Time-Asymmetry of Causation*
Weslake, Brad
Price, Huw
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22. Causation and Observation
Beebee, Helen
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24. Mental Causation
Daly, Helen
Horgan, Terry
Maslen, Cei
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26. Causation and Ethics*
Sartorio, Carolina
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29. Causation and Explanation
Lipton, Peter
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30. Causation and Reduction
Humphreys, Paul
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35. Causation in Biology*
Okasha, Samir
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37. Causation in the Law*
Stapleton, Jane
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Index
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Peter Menzies is Professor of Philosophy at Macquarie University in Sydney. He has written numerous articles on causation, including most recently ‘Causation in Context’ in H. Price and R. Corry (eds.), Causation, Physics, and the Constitution of Reality: Russell's Republic Revisited (Oxford University Press, 2007) and ‘Causal Models, Token Causation, and Processes’ in Philosophy of Science 71 (2004).

Helen Beebee is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Birmingham. Her publications include ‘Seeing Causing’ in Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society 103 (2003); ‘Causing and Nothingness’ in J. Collins, E. J. Hall, and L. A. Paul (eds.), Causation and Counterfactuals (MIT, 2004); and Hume on Causation (Routledge, 2006).

Christopher Hitchcock is Professor of Philosophy at the California Institute of Technology. He has published numerous papers in the Philosophy of Science, especially on the topic of causation, in journals such as Journal of Philosophy, Philosophical Review, Noûs, Philosophy of Science, and British Journal for the Philosophy of Science.

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Helen Beebee
Christopher Hitchcock
Peter Menzies
doi:10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199279739.001.0001



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I The History of Causation
II Standard Approaches to Causation
III Alternative Approaches to Causation
IV The Metaphysics of Causation
V The Epistemology of Causation
VI Causation in Philosophical Theories
VII Causation in Other Disciplines