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Publisher: Springer

Place: Berlin

Year: 1998

Series: Vienna Circle Collection

ISBN (Hardback): 9789401063234

ISBN (eBook): 9789401155168

Full citation:

Philipp Frank, Robert S. Cohen, The law of causality and its limits, Berlin, Springer, 1998

The law of causality and its limits

Philipp FrankRobert S. Cohen

Contents

The dangers of meaninglessness for statements of great generality

17-42

The most incisive formulation of the law of causality

Laplace's demand for a world-formula

43-63

Currents of thought hostile to causality

64-94

Causality, finalism and vitalism

95-136

Physical lawfulness and causality

137-154

Causality and chance

155-160

Causality and quantum mechanics

161-196

Causality, chance or plan in the development of the world?

197-217

Difficulties in the formulation of a general law of causality

218-239

On the so-called "true" world

240-270

On the validity of the law of causality

271-280