From Cause to Causation: A Peircean Perspective

by Menno Hulswit

Book Overview

From Cause to Causation presents both a critical analysis of C.S. Peirce's conception of causation, and a novel approach to causation, based upon the semeiotic of Peirce.
The book begins with a review of the history of causation, and with a critical discussion of contemporary theories of the concept of cause'. The author uncovers a number of inadequacies in the received views of causation, and discusses their historical roots...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1402009771
• ISBN13: 9781402009778
• Release Date: October 2002
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 258 Pages
• Weight: 0.98 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.4" x 9.4"