Publication

1998 - Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, U.K, England

Language

English

Word Count

75,000 words, Guess

Page Count

300 pages

Identifiers

and 2 more
  • LibraryThing2633227
  • Goodreads301848

Classifications

  • DDC122
  • LCCBD541 .H38 1998

Description

This book by an eminent contemporary philosopher of science offers the first comprehensive treatment of causal asymmetries. It explains why a relationship that is asymmetrical in one of these regards is asymmetrical in others. Hausman discovers surprising hidden logical connections between apparently unrelated aspects of causation and traces them all to an asymmetry of independence, which he argues is constitutive of the causal relation. This is a major book for metaphysicians and philosophers of science that will also prove stimulating to statisticians and scientists.

Subjects

Series Statement

  • Cambridge studies in probability, induction, and decision theory

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