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Six Short Papers on Causality Audiobook
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Read By: John-Michael Kuczynski
Publisher: Author's Republic
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Release Date: July 2016
Format: Unabridged Audiobook
ISBN: 9781518928796
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35
Publisher Description
These essays concern the different kinds of causation and their respective explanatory functions. Each of the following topics is discussed, in a clear and precise manner:
- The relationship between causation and prediction
- The relationship between causation and explanation
- The relationship between prediction and explanation
- The nature of counterfactual truth
- The relationship between counterfactual conditionals and the corresponding past-tense indicatives
- The relationship between counterfactual conditionals and the corresponding future-tense indicatives
- Program causality and its explanatory virtues
- The different kinds of causes involved in the development of mental illness.
- Singular causation
- The nature of causal laws
These topics are analyzed clearly, incisively, and originally, by the world authority on the topic of causation. This book is a fascinating adventure, to be cherished and listened to over and over.
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About John-Michael Kuczynski
John-Michael Kuczynski is a philosophy professor at Virginia Commonwealth University located in Richmond.