{"product_id":"books-physical-causation-by-phil-dowe","title":"Physical Causation","description":"This 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.","brand":"World of Books ","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53774278590737,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9780521780490_f66facdc-dc72-4447-8bf0-94c0b49c3ba8.jpg?v=1783983095","url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/en-gb\/products\/books-physical-causation-by-phil-dowe","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}