Counterfactuals and causal structure

Causality in the Sciences

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages

  Hoover, Kevin D ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Causal order; Causal pluralism; Causal structure; Causation; Counterfactuals; Independence; Invariance; James woodward; Manipulability account; Modularity; Nancy cartwright; Structural account

Indexed keywords

EID: 79959699353     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199574131.003.0016     Document Type: Chapter

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