The Oxford handbook of causation
Causation is a central topic in many areas of philosophy, including metaphysics, epistemology, philosophy of mind, ethics, history of philosophy, and philosophy of science. Here, 37 specially written chapters provide the most comprehensive critical guide available to issues surr…
Introduction: causality after the linguistic turn -- Intellectual historians and the content of the form -- Social history, cultural history, other histories -- Causes, events and evidence -- Time, narrative and causality -- Explanation and understanding -- Theories of action an…
Steward argues that determinism is incompatible with agency itself - not only the special human variety of agency, but also powers which can be accorded to animal agents. She offers a non-dualistic version of libertarianism, rooted in a conception of what biological forms of org…