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- catalog abstract ""This book will be of interest to philosophers interested in the problem of causation, the philosophy of Charles Sanders Peirce, process philosophy and semiotics."--Jacket.".
- catalog contributor b12641113.
- catalog created "2002.".
- catalog date "2002".
- catalog date "2002.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "2002.".
- catalog description ""This book will be of interest to philosophers interested in the problem of causation, the philosophy of Charles Sanders Peirce, process philosophy and semiotics."--Jacket.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 233-241) and index.".
- catalog description "Some Key Moments in the History of the Concept of Causation -- Causation in Ancient Greece -- Aristotle: Four Types of Explanation -- The Stoics: Causation, Exceptionless Regularity, and Necessity -- Causation in the Middle Ages -- Thomas Aquinas -- Causation in Modern Philosophy -- The Metaphysical Systems from Descartes till Leibniz -- Critical Philosophy from Locke till Mill -- Conclusion: Important Changes in the Meaning of Cause -- Contemporary Approaches to Causation -- The Contemporary Debate -- Necessary and/or Sufficient Conditions -- Causes and Counterfactual Dependency -- The Instrumental Approach: Causes as Means-to-Ends -- Probabilistic Causation -- The Singularist Approach -- Basic Issues in the Contemporary Approaches to Causation -- Five Fundamental Requirements -- The Relata of the Causal Relation -- Further Issues -- Peirce on Final Causation -- Peirce's Conception of Final Causation -- The Nature of Final Causation -- Final Causation and Efficient Causation -- Teleological and Mechanistic Processes; Peirce's Rejection of Dualism -- Teleology and Objective Chance -- Teleology as Creative; Developmental Teleology -- A Peircean Critique of Ernst Mayr's Theory of Teleology -- The Goal of Evolution -- Mayr's Dualism -- Mayr's Idea of a Program as 'Causally Responsible' for Teleological Processes -- Final Causes and Natural Classes -- Natural Kinds and Causation in Contemporary Philosophy -- Some Contemporary Interpretations of Peircean Natural Kinds -- Susan Haack's Interpretation -- Christopher Hookway's Interpretation.".
- catalog extent "xxi, 253 p. ;".
- catalog identifier "1402009763 (alk. paper)".
- catalog identifier "1402009771 (PBK.)".
- catalog isPartOf "Philosophical studies series ; v. 90".
- catalog issued "2002".
- catalog issued "2002.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Dordrecht ; Boston : Kluwer Academic Publishers,".
- catalog subject "122 21".
- catalog subject "B945.P44 H85 2002".
- catalog subject "Causation.".
- catalog subject "Peirce, Charles S. (Charles Sanders), 1839-1914.".
- catalog subject "Teleology.".
- catalog tableOfContents "Some Key Moments in the History of the Concept of Causation -- Causation in Ancient Greece -- Aristotle: Four Types of Explanation -- The Stoics: Causation, Exceptionless Regularity, and Necessity -- Causation in the Middle Ages -- Thomas Aquinas -- Causation in Modern Philosophy -- The Metaphysical Systems from Descartes till Leibniz -- Critical Philosophy from Locke till Mill -- Conclusion: Important Changes in the Meaning of Cause -- Contemporary Approaches to Causation -- The Contemporary Debate -- Necessary and/or Sufficient Conditions -- Causes and Counterfactual Dependency -- The Instrumental Approach: Causes as Means-to-Ends -- Probabilistic Causation -- The Singularist Approach -- Basic Issues in the Contemporary Approaches to Causation -- Five Fundamental Requirements -- The Relata of the Causal Relation -- Further Issues -- Peirce on Final Causation -- Peirce's Conception of Final Causation -- The Nature of Final Causation -- Final Causation and Efficient Causation -- Teleological and Mechanistic Processes; Peirce's Rejection of Dualism -- Teleology and Objective Chance -- Teleology as Creative; Developmental Teleology -- A Peircean Critique of Ernst Mayr's Theory of Teleology -- The Goal of Evolution -- Mayr's Dualism -- Mayr's Idea of a Program as 'Causally Responsible' for Teleological Processes -- Final Causes and Natural Classes -- Natural Kinds and Causation in Contemporary Philosophy -- Some Contemporary Interpretations of Peircean Natural Kinds -- Susan Haack's Interpretation -- Christopher Hookway's Interpretation.".
- catalog title "From cause to causation : a Peircean perspective / by Menno Hulswit.".
- catalog type "text".