From cause to causation : a Peircean perspective /
From Cause to Causation presents both a critical analysis of C.S. Peirce's conception of causation, and a novel approach to causation, based upon the semeiotic of Peirce. The book begins with a review of the history of causation, and with a critical discussion of contemporary theories of the co...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Dordrecht :
Springer Science,
2002.
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| Series: | Philosophical studies series ;
v. 90. |
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
| Summary: | From Cause to Causation presents both a critical analysis of C.S. Peirce's conception of causation, and a novel approach to causation, based upon the semeiotic of Peirce. The book begins with a review of the history of causation, and with a critical discussion of contemporary theories of the concept of `cause'. The author uncovers a number of inadequacies in the received views of causation, and discusses their historical roots. He makes a distinction between "causality", which is the relation between cause and effect, and causation, which is the production of a certain effect. He argues that, by focusing on causality, the contemporary theories fatally neglect the more fundamental problem of causation. The author successively discusses Peirce's theories of final causation, natural classes, semeiotic, and semeiotic causation. Finally, he uses Peirce's semeiotic to develop a new approach to causation, which relates causation to our experience of signs. |
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| Item Description: | Electronic resource. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xxi, 253 pages) |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 233-241) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9789401002974 (electronic bk.) 9401002975 (electronic bk.) |