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ISBN 10: 0486237281
ISBN 13: 9780486237282
Author: Mario Bunge
PART I - A Clarification of Meaning
1 - Causation and Determination, Causalism and Determinism
1.1. Causation, Causal Principle, and Causal Determinism
1.2. Toward a General Concept of Determination
1.3. The Spectrum of Categories of Determination
1.4. Connections Among Different Types of Determination
1.5. The Essential Components of All Types of Determinacy: Productivity and Lawfulness
1.6. Causation and Determination: Main Views
1.7. Conclusions
2 - Formulations of the Causal Principle
2.1. Definitions of Cause
2.2. General Features of Any Formulation of the Causal Principle
2.3. The Constant-Conjunction Formula of Causation
2.4. Criticism of the Constant-Conjunction Formula of Causation
2.5. Causation as Necessary (Constant and Unique) Production
2.6. Supposed Further Refinements of the Necessary-Production Formula of Causation
2.7. Retrospect and Conclusion
PART II - What Causal Determinism Does Not Assert
3 - An Examination of the Empiricist Critique of Causality
3.1. Does Causality Involve Contiguity?
3.2. Does Causality Involve Antecedence?
3.3. Is Causation Identical with Invariable Succession in Time?
3.4. Is Causation Mirrored by Differential Equations?
3.5. Summary and Conclusions
4 - An Examination of the Romantic Critique of Causality
4.1. Should Causation Be Replaced by Interdependence ?
4.2. Causality and Universal interconnection: The Block Universe and Chance
4.3. Is Causality Fatalistic?
4.4. Is Causality Mechanistic—And Is Mechanics Altogether Causal?
4.5. Summary and Conclusions
PART III - What Causal Determinism Does Assert
5 - The Linearity of Causation
5.1. Is Multiple Causation Strictly Causal?
5.2. Causality Involves Artificial Isolation
5.3. Causality Requires Either a First Cause or Infinite Regress
5.4. Causality Involves Continuity of Action
5.5. Summary and Conclusions
6 - The Unidirectionality of Causation
6.1. Causality Neglects the Response
6.2. Causality Involves the Superposition of Causes
6.3. Summary and Conclusions
7 - The Externality of Causation
7.1. Causality: Restricted to Extrinsic Determination
7.2. Does Man Make Himself?
7.3. Causality Requires the Persistent Maintenance of the Cause to Secure the Continuance of Process
7.4. Summary and Conclusions
8 - Causality and Novelty
8.1. Causalism Entails the Scholastic Dichotomy Substance-Attribute
8.2. Causality Renders Genuine Novelty Impossible
8.3. Summary and Conclusions
PART IV - The Function of the Causal Principle in Science
9 - Causality and Rational Knowledge
9.1. Is Causality Characteristic of Modern Science?
9.2. Cause and Reason
9.3. Causation and the Principle of Sufficient Reason
9.4. Limits of the Principle of Sufficient Reason in Connection with Theoretical Systems
9.5. Limits of the Principle of Sufficient Reason in Connection with Matters of Fact
9.6. On the Formalization of Causal Statements
9.7. Recapitulation and Conclusions
10 - Causality and Scientific Law
10.1. Law and Law Statement
10.2. The Traditional Identification of Causality and Lawfulness
10.3. Some Noncausal Types of Scientific Law
10.4. Causality and Lawfulness in the Sociohistorical Sciences
10.5. Conclusions
11 - Causality and Scientific Explanation
11.1. Is Science Explanatory?
11.2. Some Aspects of the Problem of Scientific Explanation
11.3. Explanations That Can Be Causal
11.4. Noncausal Explanations
11.5. Conclusions
12 - Causality and Scientific Prediction
12.1. Nature and Functions of Scientific Prediction
12.2. Kinds of Prediction
12.3. Statistical Prediction
12.4. Degrees of Certainty in Prediction
12.5. Should Causality be Defined in Terms of Predictability?
12.6. Conclusion
13 - The Place of the Causal Principle in Modern Science
13.1. Causality: Neither Myth nor Panacea
13.2. The Domain of Causal Determinacy
13.3. Delimitation of the Causal Range of a Particular Law
13.4. Any Causality Tomorrow?
13.5. General Conclusions
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