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Table of contents :
Cover
Contents
Preface
Abbreviations
Introduction
I: Causation
1 Hume on causation
2 Regularities and singular causation
3 Causation and counterfactuals
4 Causation and mechanism
II: Laws of nature
5 The regularity view of laws
6 Laws as relations among universais
7 Alternative approaches to laws
III: Explanation
8 Deductive-nomological explanation
9 Statistical explanation
10 Explanation of laws
11 The metaphysics of explanation
Notes
References
Index
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