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Causation in Science
Hardback
Main Details
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Causation in Science
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| Authors and Contributors |
By (author) Yemima Ben-Menahem
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| Physical Properties |
| Format:Hardback | | Pages:224 | | Dimensions(mm): Height 235,Width 155 |
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| Category/Genre | Philosophy of science
History of science |
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| ISBN/Barcode |
9780691174938
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| Classifications | Dewey:501 |
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| Audience | | Tertiary Education (US: College) | | Professional & Vocational | |
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| Illustrations |
3 b/w illus.
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Publishing Details |
| Publisher |
Princeton University Press
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| Imprint |
Princeton University Press
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| Publication Date |
12 June 2018 |
| Publication Country |
United States
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Description
This book explores the role of causal constraints in science, shifting our attention from causal relations between individual events--the focus of most philosophical treatments of causation-to a broad family of concepts and principles generating constraints on possible change. Yemima Ben-Menahem looks at determinism, locality, stability, symmetry p
Author Biography
Yemima Ben-Menahem is professor of philosophy at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. She is the author of Conventionalism, the editor of Hilary Putnam, and the coeditor of Probability in Physics.
Reviews"The author's writing is an admirable blend of substantive, hardheaded scholarship and illustrative, homespun cases and examples accessible to many readers."---D.B. Boersema, Choice
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