Thinking about causes [Book] : from Greek philosophy to modern physics / edited by Peter Machamer and Gereon Wolters.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

The concept of causality in Greek thought / Jürgen Mittelstrass -- Moral causes : the role of physical explanation in ancient ethics / Brad Inwood -- Ancient Stoicism, "robust epistemology," and moral philosophy / Emidio Spinelli -- Powerless causes : the case of sacramental causality / Marilyn McCord Adams -- From Scholasticism to modern physics and back : the transformation of traditional causal concepts in Descartes and Occasionalism / Robert Schnepf -- Kant on transcendental laws / Eric Watkins -- Freedom from necessity : the influence of J.S. Mill's politics on his concept of causation / Laura J. Snyder -- Mill on causation and the historical turn in philosophy of science : some historical and methodological remarks / Paolo Parrini -- Sprachkritik and the problem of historical understanding : Kant, Dilthey, Wittgenstein, and Weber / Henry Krips -- Plurality in causality / Raffaella Campaner and Maria Carla Galavotti -- How to be a causal pluralist / Christopher Hitchcock -- Do the causal principles of modern physics contradict causal anti-fundamentalism? / John D. Norton -- Epiphenomenalism : the dos and the don'ts / Larry Shapiro and Elliott Sober -- On selection of, for, with, and against / Peter McLaughlin -- Causality in economics / Sir Clive W. J. Granger -- The core of free will / Wolfgang Spohn.