书名: Causality and Determinism (Woodbridge Lecture)
作者: G. H. von Wright (Author)
出版社: Columbia University Press (March 25, 1975)
语言: English
ISBN-10: 0231037589
ISBN-13: 978-0231037587
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Book Preface by author
These Woodbridge Lectures were given at Columbia on October 30 and 31 and November 1 and 2, 1972. I wish to thank the Department of Philosophy at Columbia University for honoring me with the invitation to give the lectures. They are published in a revised and slightly expanded form.
The present work has grown out of ideas embodied in the chapter on causation in my book Explanation and Understanding. Originally it was my plan to deal with the problems of causality and determinism both in the sphere of natural events and in that of human action. But I soon realized that it was not possible for me to discuss thoroughly both aspects of the topic within the set frame of four lectures. Therefore, the treatment is here restricted to causality as a category of a philosophy of nature only.
A first manuscript for the lectures was drafted during a stay at the Villa Serbelloni, Bellagio, in the Autumn of 1971. I am deeply grateful to the Rockefeller Foundation for this opportunity to do concentrated work in attractive surroundings. The first public presentation of the material took place in a series of Hägerström Lectures at Uppsala University in the Winter of 1972. My thanks are due to the university for inviting me and to my Swedish audience for the challenge to revise and improve the exposition of my thoughts.
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作者: G. H. von Wright (Author)
出版社: Columbia University Press (March 25, 1975)
语言: English
ISBN-10: 0231037589
ISBN-13: 978-0231037587
电子书格式：DJVU, 推荐查看工具：WinDjView
Book Preface by author
These Woodbridge Lectures were given at Columbia on October 30 and 31 and November 1 and 2, 1972. I wish to thank the Department of Philosophy at Columbia University for honoring me with the invitation to give the lectures. They are published in a revised and slightly expanded form.
The present work has grown out of ideas embodied in the chapter on causation in my book Explanation and Understanding. Originally it was my plan to deal with the problems of causality and determinism both in the sphere of natural events and in that of human action. But I soon realized that it was not possible for me to discuss thoroughly both aspects of the topic within the set frame of four lectures. Therefore, the treatment is here restricted to causality as a category of a philosophy of nature only.
A first manuscript for the lectures was drafted during a stay at the Villa Serbelloni, Bellagio, in the Autumn of 1971. I am deeply grateful to the Rockefeller Foundation for this opportunity to do concentrated work in attractive surroundings. The first public presentation of the material took place in a series of Hägerström Lectures at Uppsala University in the Winter of 1972. My thanks are due to the university for inviting me and to my Swedish audience for the challenge to revise and improve the exposition of my thoughts.
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