Causes and Coincidences
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In an important departure from theories of causation, David Owens proposes that coincidences have no causes, and that a cause is something which ensures that its effects are no coincidence. In Causes and Coincidences, he elucidates the idea of a coincidence as an event which can be analysed into constituent events, the nomological antecedents of which are independent of each other. He also suggests that causal facts can be analysed in terms of non-causal...
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0521044480
ISBN13:9780521044486
Release Date:January 2008
Publisher:Cambridge University Press
Length:204 Pages
Weight:0.58 lbs.
Dimensions:0.5" x 5.5" x 8.5"
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