By Ernest Sosa
This quantity offers a variety of the main influential contemporary discussions of the the most important metaphysical query: what's it for one occasion to reason one other? the topic of causation bears on many subject matters, similar to time, clarification, psychological states, the legislation of nature, and the philosophy of technological know-how. members comprise J.L Mackie, Michael Scriven, Jaegwon Kim, G.E.M. Anscombe, G.H. von Wright, C.J. Ducasse, Wesley C. Salmon, David Lewis, Paul Horwich, Jonathan Bennett, Ernest Sosa, and Michael Tooley.
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