
This volume presents a selection of the most influential recent discussions of the crucial metaphysical question: What is it for one event to cause another? The subject of causation bears on many topics, such as time, explanation, mental states, the laws of nature, and the philosophy...

This was not the woman I knew, the woman I had married, the woman who had given me children, but one lost, exhausted by too much nasty sex. So thinks our narrator, who is appalled and sickened by watching another man make love to his wife, but excited and aroused beyond description...

Tooley here sets out and defends realist accounts of traditional empiricist explanations of causation and laws of nature, arguing that since reductionist accounts of causation are exposed to decisive objections, empiricists must break with that tradition.