Cause and chance: causation in an indeterministic world
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London
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Routledge
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c2004
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viii, 211 p. : ill
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International library of philosophy
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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edited by Phil Dowe and Paul Noordhof
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Counterfactuals and the benefit of hindsight / Dorothy Edgington -- Chance-lowering causes / Phil Dowe -- Chance-changing causal processes / Helen Beebee -- Counterfactual theories, pre-emption, and persistence / Douglas Ehring -- Probability and causation / Michael Tooley -- Analysing chancy causation without appeal to chance-raising / Stephen Barker -- Routes, processes and chance-lowering causes / Chris Hitchcock -- Interdeterministic causation and varieties of chance-raising / Murali Ramachandran -- Probabilistic cause, edge conditions, late pre-emption and discreet cases / Igal Kvart -- Prospects for a counterfactual theory of causation / Paul Noordhof.