Mario Bunge

Causality and Modern Science

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The causal problem has become topical once again

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Revised
• Seitenzahl: 454
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. November 2008
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 27mm
• Gewicht: 732g
• ISBN-13: 9781412808248
• ISBN-10: 1412808243
• Artikelnr.: 23886551

Autorenporträt

Mario Bunge

Inhaltsangabe

I: A Clarification of Meaning
1: Causation and Determination, Causalism and Determinism
2: Formulations of the Causal Principle
II: What Causal Determinism Does Not Assert
3: An Examination of the Empiricist Critique of Causality
4: An Examination of the Romantic Critique of Causality
III: What Causal Determinism Does Assert
5: The Linearity of Causation
6: The Unidirectionality of Causation
7: The Externality of Causation
8: Causality and Novelty
IV: The Function of the Causal Principle in Science
9: Causality and Rational Knowledge
10: Causality and Scientific Law
11: Causality and Scientific Explanation
12: Causality and Scientific Prediction
13: The Place of the Causal Principle in Modern Science