TY - BOOK ID - 18107472 TI - From cause to causation : a Peircean perspective PY - 2002 SN - 1402009763 1402009771 9401002975 PB - Dordrecht Kluwer DB - UniCat KW - Causation. KW - Teleology. KW - Peirce, Charles S., KW - Ontology. KW - Metaphysics. KW - Pragmatism. KW - Philosophy. KW - Philosophy of nature. KW - History of Philosophy. KW - Philosophy of Nature. KW - Nature KW - Nature, Philosophy of KW - Natural theology KW - Mental philosophy KW - Humanities KW - Idealism KW - Knowledge, Theory of KW - Philosophy KW - Philosophy, Modern KW - Positivism KW - Realism KW - Utilitarianism KW - Experience KW - Reality KW - Truth KW - God KW - Ontology KW - Philosophy of mind KW - Being KW - Metaphysics KW - Necessity (Philosophy) KW - Substance (Philosophy) UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:18107472 AB - From Cause to Causation presents both a critical analysis of C.S. Peirce's conception of causation, and a novel approach to causation, based upon the semeiotic of Peirce. The book begins with a review of the history of causation, and with a critical discussion of contemporary theories of the concept of `cause'. The author uncovers a number of inadequacies in the received views of causation, and discusses their historical roots. He makes a distinction between "causality", which is the relation between cause and effect, and causation, which is the production of a certain effect. He argues that, by focusing on causality, the contemporary theories fatally neglect the more fundamental problem of causation. The author successively discusses Peirce's theories of final causation, natural classes, semeiotic, and semeiotic causation. Finally, he uses Peirce's semeiotic to develop a new approach to causation, which relates causation to our experience of signs. ER -