Understanding Causality

Summarizing in broad outline the data accumulated from about a hundred studies on the essential points of causal explanation, this introduction (written with the collaboration of R. Garcia) defines the main problems posed by these data. During the past few years, the research of the International Center for Genetic Epistemology has dealt with causality, in its broadest sense, including every explanation of a material phenomenon, both the physical aspects of actions and their relationships t...