Causation: A Realist Approach
Oxford University Press (1987)
| Abstract | Tooley here sets out and defends realist accounts of traditional empiricist explanations of causation and laws of nature, arguing that since reductionist accounts of causation are exposed to decisive objections, empiricists must break with that tradition. | |||||||||
| Keywords | Causation Realism | |||||||||
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| Call number | BD541.T66 1987 | |||||||||
| ISBN(s) | 0198249624 9780198249627 | |||||||||
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