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Rational Causation
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Pages: 279
Authors: Eric Marcus
Categories: Philosophy
Type: BOOK - Published: 2012-05-07 - Publisher: Harvard University Press

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We explain what people think and do by citing their reasons, but how do such explanations work, and what do they tell us about the nature of reality? Contempora
Causation in International Relations
Language: en
Pages: 291
Authors: Milja Kurki
Categories: Political Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2008-04-03 - Publisher: Cambridge University Press

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World political processes, such as wars and globalisation, are engendered by complex sets of causes and conditions. Although the idea of causation is fundamenta
Causation and Cognition in Early Modern Philosophy
Language: en
Pages: 343
Authors: Dominik Perler
Categories: Philosophy
Type: BOOK - Published: 2019-07-23 - Publisher: Routledge

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This book re-examines the roles of causation and cognition in early modern philosophy. The standard historical narrative suggests that early modern thinkers aba
Fundamental Causation
Language: en
Pages: 372
Authors: Christopher Gregory Weaver
Categories: Philosophy
Type: BOOK - Published: 2018-08-06 - Publisher: Routledge

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Fundamental Causation addresses issues in the metaphysics of deterministic singular causation, the metaphysics of events, property instances, facts, preventions
Efficient Causation
Language: en
Pages: 395
Authors: Tad M. Schmaltz
Categories: Philosophy
Type: BOOK - Published: 2014 - Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

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This volume is a collection of new essays by specialists that trace the concept of efficient causation from its discovery (or invention) in Ancient Greece, thro