Causation in Science

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This book explores the role of causal constraints in science, shifting our attention from causal relations between individual events--the focus of most philosophical treatments of causation-to a broad family of concepts and principles generating constraints on possible change. Yemima Ben-Menahem looks at determinism, locality, stability, symmetry p

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"The authors writing is an admirable blend of substantive, hardheaded scholarship and illustrative, homespun cases and examples accessible to many readers."---D.B. Boersema, Choice

Author Bio

Yemima Ben-Menahem is professor of philosophy at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. She is the author of Conventionalism, the editor of Hilary Putnam, and the coeditor of Probability in Physics.