A Variety of Causes

New York, NY: Oxford University Press (2020)
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The book provides an analysis of a key notion in our lives, causation: what its nature is; how we should characterise it in language, how it relates to laws of nature, how causes differ from their effects and why they tend to occur earlier than their effects.

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BD591.N66 2020

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9780199251469   0199251460   9780191892271
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