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Causation and Laws of Nature

By: Max Kistler

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This is the first English translation of Causalite ́ et Lois de La Nature, and is an important contribution to the theory of causation. Max Kistler reconstructs a unified concept of causation that is general enough to adequately deal with both elementary physical processes, and the macroscopic level of phenomena we encounter in everyday life. This book will be of great interest to philosophers of science and metaphysics, and also to students and scholars of philosophy of mind where concepts of causation and law play a prominent role.

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Routledge

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1134150679

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9781134150670

Children of the Laboring Poor

Expectation and Experience Among the Orphans of Early Modern Augsburg

By: Thomas Max Safley

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Children of the Laboring Poor

Expectation and Experience Among the Orphans of Early Modern Augsburg

By: Thomas Max Safley

This volume provides fascinating new insights into the agency of the laboring poor in early modern Europe. Based on more than 5,000 biographical accounts of orphans in the city of Augsburg, it explores their responses to changing social and economic circumstances and their utilization of social institutions and mores.

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BRILL

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0391042246

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9780391042247

Charity and Economy in the Orphanages of Early Modern Augsburg

By: Thomas Max Safley

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Charity and Economy in the Orphanages of Early Modern Augsburg

By: Thomas Max Safley

This book examines the complex interrelationship between charity, confession, and capital in the orphanages of Augsburg, one of early modern Europe's great manufacturing and mercantile centers. The product of monumental, original research, if offers a thorough-going revision of current historical scholarship on poor relief, social discipline, organization building, and emergent capitalism.

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367

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9004618724

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9789004618725

Ellenberg & Rifkin's Diabetes Mellitus

By: Daniel Porte,Robert S. Sherwin,Alain Baron,Max Ellenberg,Harold Rifkin

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Ellenberg & Rifkin's Diabetes Mellitus

By: Daniel Porte,Robert S. Sherwin,Alain Baron,Max Ellenberg,Harold Rifkin

A comprehensive reference on diabetes mellitus, covering basic biochemistry, physiology, and pathogenesis, as well as clinical diagnosis and treatment. The Sixth Edition includes five new chapters, plus new material on the genetic basis of the disease, new hypoglycemic drugs, mechanisms of hormone action, and regulation of hormone secretion.

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1090

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McGraw Hill Professional

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0838521789

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9780838521786

Metaphysics of Causation

By: Max Kistler

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Metaphysics of Causation

By: Max Kistler

This Element presents the main attempts to account for causation as a metaphysical concept, in terms of 1) regularities and laws of nature, 2) conditional probabilities and Bayes nets, 3) necessitation between universals and causal powers, 4) counterfactual dependence, 5) interventions and causal models, and 6) processes and mechanisms. None of these accounts can provide a complete reductive analysis. However, some provide the means to distinguish several useful concepts of causation, such as total cause, contributing cause, direct and indirect cause, and actual cause. Moreover, some of these accounts can be construed so as to complement each other. The last part presents some contemporary debates: on the relation between grounding and causation, eliminativism with respect to causation in physics, the challenge against 'downward' causation from the Closure and Exclusion principles, robust and proportional causation, and degrees of causation. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.

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1009260839

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Causation and Laws of Nature

By: Max Kistler

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Dispositions and Causal Powers

By: Mr Bruno Gnassounou,Mr Max Kistler

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Dispositions and Causal Powers

By: Mr Bruno Gnassounou,Mr Max Kistler

Dispositions are everywhere. We say that a wall is hard, that water quenches thirst and is transparent, that dogs can swim and oak trees can let their leaves fall, and that acid has the power to corrode metals. All these statements express attributions of dispositions, be they physical, physiological or psychological, yet there is much philosophical debate about how far, if at all, dispositional predicates can have complete meaning or figure in causal explanations. This collection of essays, by leading international researchers, examine the case for realism with respect to dispositions and causal powers in both metaphysics and science. Among the issues debated in this book is whether dispositions can be analyzed in terms of conditionals, whether all dispositions have a so-called categorical basis and, if they do, what is the relation between the disposition and its basis.

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Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.

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1409485188

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Causation and Laws of Nature

Causation and Laws of Nature

Children of the Laboring Poor

Children of the Laboring Poor

Charity and Economy in the Orphanages of Early Modern Augsburg

Charity and Economy in the Orphanages of Early Modern Augsburg

Ellenberg & Rifkin's Diabetes Mellitus

Ellenberg & Rifkin's Diabetes Mellitus

Metaphysics of Causation

Metaphysics of Causation

Causation and Laws of Nature

Causation and Laws of Nature

Dispositions and Causal Powers

Dispositions and Causal Powers

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