From cause to causation : a Peircean perspective
Peirce's conception of causation, and a novel approach to causation, based upon the semeiotic of Peirce. The author successively discusses Peirce's theories of final causation, natural classes, semeiotic, and semeiotic causation.
xxi, 253 s.
9781402009761, 9781402009778, 1402009763, 1402009771
186296647
1: SOME KEY MOMENTS IN THE HISTORY OF THE CONCEPT OF CAUSATION.- 2: CONTEMPORARY APPROACHES TO CAUSATION.- 3: PEIRCE ON FINAL CAUSATION.- 4: FINAL CAUSES AND NATURAL GLASSES.- 5: THE RIDDLE OF SEMEIOTIC CAUSATION.- 6: A SEMEIOTIC ACCOUNT OF CAUSATION.- Notes.