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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      13 October 2009
      03 July 2000
      ISBN:
      9780511570650
      9780521780490
      9780521039758
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511570650
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.52kg, 236 Pages
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.359kg, 236 Pages
      • Series:
      Cambridge Studies in Probability, Induction and Decision Theory
      Subjects:
      Philosophy of Science, Philosophy
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    Series:
    Cambridge Studies in Probability, Induction and Decision Theory
    Subjects:
    Philosophy of Science, Philosophy
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    This book, published in 2000, is a clear account of causation based firmly in contemporary science. Dowe discusses in a systematic way, a positive account of causation: the conserved quantities account of causal processes which he has been developing over the last ten years. The book describes causal processes and interactions in terms of conserved quantities: a causal process is the worldline of an object which possesses a conserved quantity, and a causal interaction involves the exchange of conserved quantities. Further, things that are properly called cause and effect are appropriately connected by a set of causal processes and interactions. The distinction between cause and effect is explained in terms of a version of the fork theory: the direction of a certain kind of ordered pattern of events in the world. This particular version has the virtue that it allows for the possibility of backwards causation, and therefore time travel.

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    ‘This book … contains a detailed analysis of the notion of causality … The author’s favourite solution of the conflict between quantum mechanics and Einstein’s ‘physical reality’ in terms of ‘backward causation’ is fully discussed.’

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