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Title Time and causality across the sciences / edited by Samantha Kleinberg
Published Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2019

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Description 1 online resource (x, 262 pages)
Summary 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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes PDF of title page (viewed October 28, 2019)
Subject Knowledge management.
Computer science.
Philosophy.
Science -- Philosophy.
Science -- Methodology.
Causation.
Time perception.
Knowledge Management
Electronic Data Processing
Philosophy
Time Perception
philosophy.
Causation
Computer science
Knowledge management
Philosophy
Science -- Methodology
Science -- Philosophy
Time perception
Form Electronic book
Author Kleinberg, Samantha, editor
ISBN 9781108592703
1108592708