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The Cement of the Universe

A Study of Causation

By: J. L. Mackie

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Paperback | 18 September 1980

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Studies causation both as a concept and as it is 'in the objects.' Offers new accounts of the logic of singular causal statements, the form of causal regularities, the detection of causal relationships, the asymmetry of cause and effect, and necessary connection, and it relates causation to functional and statistical laws and to teleology.

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`It is a singularly impressive and powerful essay and one that will provide a basis for comment and controversy about causation and allied problems for a long time to come.' D. J. O`Connor, British Journal for the Philosophy of Science

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Preface	p. vii
Preface to the Paperback Edition	p. viii
Introduction	p. 1
Hume's Account of Causation	p. 3
The Concept of Causation-- Conditional Analyses	p. 29
Causal Regularities1	p. 59
Kant and Transcendentalism	p. 88
Common Sense and the Law	p. 117
Functional Laws and Concomitant Variation	p. 143
The Direction of Causation1	p. 160
The Necessity of Causes	p. 193
Statistical Laws	p. 231
Extensionality--Two Kinds of Cause	p. 248
Teleology	p. 270
Appendix Eliminative Methods of Induction (Mill's Methods of Induction)	p. 297
Additional Notes	p. 322
Bibliography	p. 323
Additional Bibliography	p. 326
Index	p. 327
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A Study of Causation

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