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Introduction to Composition, Counterfactuals, Causation
No full textIntroduzione al numero di Humana.Mente dedicata al tema "Composition, Counterfactuals, Causation
Composition, Counterfactuals and Causation
No full textThe problems of how the world is made, how things
could have gone, and how causal relations work (if
any such relation is at play) cross the entire historical
development of philosophy.
In the last forty years, the analytic tradition has given
these problems a prominent role in its agenda, and
David Lewis has suggested methodologies and
theories that have contributed to enrich the
complexity of our main notions in the field of,
mereology, modality and the theory of causation
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