From Cause to Causation: A Peircean Perspective

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 relat...