{"product_id":"9780521039758","title":"Physical Causation (Cambridge Studies in Probability, Induction and Decision Theory)","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis book, published in 2000, is a clear account of causation based firmly in contemporary science. Dowe discusses in a systematic way, a positive account of causation: the conserved quantities account of causal processes which he has been developing over the last ten years. The book describes causal processes and interactions in terms of conserved quantities: a causal process is the worldline of an object which possesses a conserved quantity, and a causal interaction involves the exchange of conserved quantities. Further, things that are properly called cause and effect are appropriately connected by a set of causal processes and interactions. The distinction between cause and effect is explained in terms of a version of the fork theory: the direction of a certain kind of ordered pattern of events in the world. This particular version has the virtue that it allows for the possibility of backwards causation, and therefore time travel.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Cambridge University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52274906333495,"sku":"00000_00000_00000_00000","price":379.26,"currency_code":"MYR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0962\/3548\/7543\/files\/9780521039758-1.jpg?v=1783113082","url":"https:\/\/kinokuniya.com.my\/products\/9780521039758","provider":"Books Kinokuniya Malaysia","version":"1.0","type":"link"}