Causality Determinism by Wright (10 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 143 pages. Former owner's signature. Otherwise, a clean, unmarked copy.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good +. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. In this book, Georg Henrik von Wright argues for an "actionist" or "manipulability" theory of causation, asserting that our understanding of causality is linked to human action and intervention. The book distinguishes between causal explanation in natural sciences and the "understanding" required for human actions in social sciences. Bound in tan cloth, covers are plain with black lettering on the spine. Book is in four parts and includes appendix. Indexed. xxi, 143 pp. Dust jacket is a dark tan with ornamented top and bottom floral border and black lettering. CONDITION: Book is VG+ with minor shelfware and lightly toned leaves. Some mild discoloration within endpapers. Unmarked. Dust jacket is lightly worn and is not price clipped. A very nice, solid copy. Full refund if not satisfied.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. First Edition. xxi, 1 leaf, 143 pp. Original cloth. Near Fine, in very good+ dust jacket (very slight wear). Woodbridge Lectures, Number 10.

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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 8vo (21.5 cm), XX, 143 pp. Publisher's cloth and dust jacket (dj slightly rubbed and frayed at extremities). First edition of the Woodbridge Lectures delivered at Columbia University in October and November 1972-- the tenth in the series--and grew directly out of the chapter on causation in his earlier Explanation and Understanding, drafted first at the Villa Serbelloni in Bellagio in 1971 and first publicly presented as Häggerström Lectures at Uppsala in 1972. Von Wright restricts the treatment deliberately to causality as a category of the philosophy of nature only, setting aside the parallel questions about human action that he had originally planned to include. The book's four parts move with exceptional analytical precision through: the logic of conditions and the extensionalist versus intensionalist positions on causal conditionship (Part I); the ontological background of a logico-atomistic world-model built from states of affairs and temporally related occasions, including the logics of "tomorrow" and "yesterday," modal systems, determinism, and the notion of lost possibilities (Part II); the asymmetry of causal relations, manipulative causation, the distinction between nomic and accidental regularities, and the test condition for lawlike regularities including the famous Mill problem of why night is not a cause of day (Part III); and finally Universal Determinism in its various formulations--from the Laplacean demon to the problem of reconciling determinism with free action--concluding that the truth of Universal Determinism must remain an open question and that the concept of cause presupposes that of action (Part IV).

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Buch. Condition: Neu. Causality and Determinism | Georg Henrik Von Wright | Buch | Woodbridge Lectures, 10 | Englisch | 2020 | Columbia University Press | EAN 9780231905749 | Verantwortliche Person für die EU: preigu GmbH & Co. KG, Lengericher Landstr. 19, 49078 Osnabrück, mail[at]preigu[dot]de | Anbieter: preigu Print on Demand.