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Copyright Page 2 Very Short Introduction 4 Title Page 14 Contents 16 List of illustrations 18 Why causation? 20 1 The problem: what’s the matter with causation? 23 2 Regularity: causation without connection? 35 3 Time and space: do causes occur before their effects? 49 4 Necessity: do causes guarantee their effects? 61 5 Counterfactual dependence: do causes make a difference? 75 6 Physicalism: is it all transference? 88 7 Pluralism: is causation many different things? 101 8 Primitivism: is causation the most basic thing? 112 9 Dispositionalism: what tends to be? 124 10 Finding causes: where are they? 138 A very short afterword 150 Further reading 151 Index 155 Copyright Page 2 Very Short Introduction 4 Title Page 14 Contents 16 List of illustrations 18 Why causation? 20 1 The problem: what鈥檚 the matter with causation? 23 2 Regularity: causation without connection? 35 3 Time and space: do causes occur before their effects? 49 4 Necessity: do causes guarantee their effects? 61 5 Counterfactual dependence: do causes make a difference? 75 6 Physicalism: is it all transference? 88 7 Pluralism: is causation many different things? 101 8 Primitivism: is causation the most basic thing? 112

Author

Stephen Mumford & Rani Lill Anjum

Publisher

Oxford University Press, USA

Language

EN