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Causal Asymmetries

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Format Hardback
ISBN-10 0521622891
ISBN-13 9780521622899
Publisher Cambridge University Press
Imprint Cambridge University Press
Country of Manufacture GB
Country of Publication GB
Publication Date Jul 28th, 1998
Print length 320 Pages
Weight 628 grams
Dimensions 16.00 x 23.70 x 3.10 cms
KSh 20,500.00
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Causation is asymmetrical in many different ways. Causes precede effects; explanations cite causes not effects. Agents use causes to manipulate their effects; they don't use effects to manipulate their causes. Effects of a common cause are correlated; causes of a common effect are not. This is a major book for philosophers of science that will also prove insightful to economists and statisticians.
This book, by one of the pre-eminent philosophers of science writing today, offers the most comprehensive account available of causal asymmetries. Causation is asymmetrical in many different ways. Causes precede effects; explanations cite causes not effects. Agents use causes to manipulate their effects; they don't use effects to manipulate their causes. Effects of a common cause are correlated; causes of a common effect are not. This book explains why a relationship that is asymmetrical in one of these regards is asymmetrical in the others. Hausman discovers surprising hidden connections between theories of causation and traces them all to an asymmetry of independence. This is a major book for philosophers of science that will also prove insightful to economists and statisticians.

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