Table of Contents

I: Classical Sources: Theories of Causality Prior to 1900; 1: Aristotle on the Four Aspects of Causation; 2: Medieval Science and the Discovery of Causes; 3: Francis Bacon on the Exclusion of Final Causes; 4: The Revival of Atomism; 5: Causes, Impacts, and Action-at-a-Distance; 6: David Hume on Causality; 7: Kant’s Response to Hume’s Regularity View; 8: J. S. Mill on Invariable and Unconditional Correlations; 9: Options for a Theory of Causality ca. 1900; II: Early Twentieth-Century Theories: Dominance of the Regularity View; 10: C. S. Peirce on Causation and Causality; 11: Karl Pearson’s Version of the Regularity View; 12: ; 13: Causality in Physics: Revision of the Regularity View; III: Quantum Mechanics and the Regularity-between-States View; 14: The Interpretation of Quantum Phenomena; 15: Causality and the Three Levels of Language in Quantum Mechanics; 16: Philipp Frank on Causality and Inferability; IV: Protests against the Identification of Causality and Regularity; 17: Ducasse and the Singularity Definition; 18: Cause as Sufficient Condition; 19: Probabilistic Causality; 20: Wesley Salmon on Processes and Interactions; 21: Phil Dowe and the Conserved Quantity Theory; 22: Causality and the Transfer of Energy or Momentum; 23: Causality and Powers; 24: Manipulability and Causality; 25: David Lewis and the Counterfactual Conditional View; 26: Criteria of Causal Status; 27: Multiple Concepts of Causality; 28: Conflicting Criteria of Causal Status

About the Author

John Losee

Reviews

-Theories of Causality: From Antiquity to the Present considers issues of cause and effect, and how they apply in both science and daily living. Historical background accompanies a number of causal theories and their interpretations, with chapters analyzing their strengths and weaknesses. Any college-level collection strong in applied philosophy will find this a winning consideration!- --The Midwest Book Review -The material presented in the book... provide[s] a fairly complete overview of the most important philosophical accounts of causality since Aristotle.- --Henk W. de Regt, Metascience

"Theories of Causality: From Antiquity to the Present considers issues of cause and effect, and how they apply in both science and daily living. Historical background accompanies a number of causal theories and their interpretations, with chapters analyzing their strengths and weaknesses. Any college-level collection strong in applied philosophy will find this a winning consideration!" --The Midwest Book Review "The material presented in the book... provide[s] a fairly complete overview of the most important philosophical accounts of causality since Aristotle." --Henk W. de Regt, Metascience

"Theories of Causality: From Antiquity to the Present considers issues of cause and effect, and how they apply in both science and daily living. Historical background accompanies a number of causal theories and their interpretations, with chapters analyzing their strengths and weaknesses. Any college-level collection strong in applied philosophy will find this a winning consideration!" --The Midwest Book Review "The material presented in the book... provide[s] a fairly complete overview of the most important philosophical accounts of causality since Aristotle." --Henk W. de Regt, Metascience