David Papineau is Professor of Philosophy at King's College London and a fellow of the British Academy. He is the author of The Metaphysics of Sensory Experience (2021), Knowing the Score: How Sport teaches us about Philosophy (and Philosophy about Sport) (2017) and many other books.

• 1. Overview plus analytic table of contents; 2. Causes from correlations; 3. Probabilistic theories of causation; 4. Structural equations and the bridge principles; 5. Causal and thermodynamic asymmetry; 6. Error terms and independent mechanisms; 7. Token causation; 8. The practical importance of generic causal claims; 9. Indeterminism; 10. Causation and rational action; Personal postscript; References; Index.

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David Papineau is Professor of Philosophy at King's College London and a fellow of the British Academy. He is the author of The Metaphysics of Sensory Experience (2021), Knowing the Score: How Sport teaches us about Philosophy (and Philosophy about Sport) (2017) and many other books.

• 1. Overview plus analytic table of contents; 2. Causes from correlations; 3. Probabilistic theories of causation; 4. Structural equations and the bridge principles; 5. Causal and thermodynamic asymmetry; 6. Error terms and independent mechanisms; 7. Token causation; 8. The practical importance of generic causal claims; 9. Indeterminism; 10. Causation and rational action; Personal postscript; References; Index.

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David Papineau is Professor of Philosophy at King's College London and a fellow of the British Academy. He is the author of The Metaphysics of Sensory Experience (2021), Knowing the Score: How Sport teaches us about Philosophy (and Philosophy about Sport) (2017) and many other books.

• 1. Overview plus analytic table of contents; 2. Causes from correlations; 3. Probabilistic theories of causation; 4. Structural equations and the bridge principles; 5. Causal and thermodynamic asymmetry; 6. Error terms and independent mechanisms; 7. Token causation; 8. The practical importance of generic causal claims; 9. Indeterminism; 10. Causation and rational action; Personal postscript; References; Index.

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