Time and Causality across the Sciences
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- Editor: Samantha Kleinberg, Stevens Institute of Technology, New Jersey
- Date Published: October 2019
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This book, geared toward academic researchers and graduate students, brings together research on all facets of how time and causality relate across the sciences. Time is fundamental to how we perceive and reason about causes. It lets us immediately rule out the sound of a car crash as its cause. That a cause happens before its effect has been a core, and often unquestioned, part of how we describe causality. Research across disciplines shows that the relationship is much more complex than that. This book explores what that means for both the metaphysics and epistemology of causes - what they are and how we can find them. Across psychology, biology, and the social sciences, common themes emerge, suggesting that time plays a critical role in our understanding. The increasing availability of large time series datasets allows us to ask new questions about causality, necessitating new methods for modeling dynamic systems and incorporating mechanistic information into causal models.
Read more- Written for a broad audience, gathering the research currently scattered across many domain-specific journals and providing the needed background for readers outside the immediate field
- Provides a comprehensive introduction to how prominent theories of causality address time, with topics ranging from metaphysics to algorithms for inferring causes
- The book is self-contained and requires no prior background in causality
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'Understanding the causal relations that make the world go round would be so much easier if mechanisms didn't operate over time, or at least if they operated at a single time scale. But mechanisms do unfold over multiple time scales, making not only inferences about causality tricky, but the very definition of causality the most slippery of conceptual issues. This book unpacks all this at the cutting edge of philosophy and science. It even addresses what may be the heart of the problem: how people understand causality and its counterpart, time.' Steven Sloman, Brown University, Rhode Island
See more reviews'A very useful collection on a fascinating topic. The connection between time and causation seems as obvious in science as in everyday life, yet turns out to be deeply puzzling, as soon as we dig below the surface. The essays collected here offer an excellent and accessible introduction to the issues, from an impressively interdisciplinary range of perspectives.' Huw Price, University of Cambridge
'The volume encompasses a wide range of discussions on both metaphysical and epistemological approaches, and chapter authors look at issues across the sciences including physics, biochemistry, psychology, and sociology. Readers will undoubtedly agree that most researchers, including philosophers, who are concerned about causality would benefit from considering how their own approach compares with those of other disciplines … the material will be accessible to anyone within the respective sciences. The chapters are well written throughout, each with a good reference list.' E. Kincanon, Choice
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- Date Published: October 2019
- format: Adobe eBook Reader
- isbn: 9781108754927
- contains: 30 b/w illus.
- availability: This ISBN is for an eBook version which is distributed on our behalf by a third party.
Table of Contents
1. An introduction to time and causality Samantha Kleinberg
2. Causality and time: an introductory typology Bert Leuridan and Thomas Lodewyck
3. The direction of causation Phil Dowe
4. On the causal nature of time Victor Gijsbers
5. Causation in a physical world: an overview of our emerging understanding Jenann Ismael
6. Intervening in time Neil R. Bramely
7. Time-event relationships as representations for constructing cell mechanisms Yin Chung Au
8. Causation, time asymmetry, and causal mechanisms in the social sciences Inge de Bal and Erik Weber
9. Temporalization in causal modeling Jonathan Livengood and Karen R. Zwier
10. Reintroducing dynamics into static causal models Naftali Weinberger
11. Overcoming the poverty of mechanisms in causal models David Jensen.
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