A Variety of Causes

by Paul Noordhof

This is the first book length defence of a counterfactual theory of causation. The analysis defended is new. It expresses the idea that, independent of its competitors, a cause raises the chance of an effect over its mean background chance by a complete causal chain. The analysis depends upon a novel development of David Lewis's Theory of Counterfactuals. One consequence of the analysis is that causation is not transitive. Causation is also nonsymmetric...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199251460
• ISBN13: 9780199251469
• Release Date: October 2020
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 592 Pages
• Weight: 2.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.5" x 6.2" x 9.4"