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This book, published in 2000, is a clear account of causation based firmly in contemporary science. Dowe discusses in a systematic way, a positive account of causation: the conserved quantities account of causal processes which he has been developing over the last ten years. The book describes causal processes and interactions in terms of conserved quantities: a causal process is the worldline of an object which possesses a conserved quantity, and a causal interaction involves the exchange of conserved quantities. Further, things that are properly called cause and effect are appropriately connected by a set of causal processes and interactions. The distinction between cause and effect is explained in terms of a version of the fork theory: the direction of a certain kind of ordered pattern of events in the world. This particular version has the virtue that it allows for the possibility of backwards causation, and therefore time travel.

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Book category Books in English Mathematics & science Science: general issues Philosophy of science

• Full title: Physical Causation
• Author: Phil Dowe
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 236
• EAN: 9780521039758
• ISBN: 0521039754
• ID: 02019754
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Weight: 359 g
• Dimensions: 228 × 152 × 13 mm
• Date of publishing: 16. August 2007

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