Causes and Coincidences

by David Owens

Book Overview

In an important departure from theories of causation, David Owens proposes that coincidences have no causes, and that a cause is something which ensures that its effects are no coincidence. In Causes and Coincidences, he elucidates the idea of a coincidence as an event which can be analysed into constituent events, the nomological antecedents of which are independent of each other. He also suggests that causal facts can be analysed in terms of non-causal...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521044480
• ISBN13: 9780521044486
• Release Date: January 2008
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 204 Pages
• Weight: 0.58 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.5" x 8.5"