Editors:
- Explores causation from a linguistics, philosophy, and psychology perspective
- Offers new linguistic approaches to analyze causative constructions
- Provides a good representation by leading scholars
Part of the book series: Jerusalem Studies in Philosophy and History of Science (JSPS)
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Table of contents (15 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Perspectives on Causations
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Methodology: Uncovering the Representation of Causation
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Syntactic and Semantic Aspects of Causation
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Philosophical Inquiries on Causation
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About this book
This book explores relationships and maps out intersections between discussions on causation in three scientific disciplines: linguistics, philosophy, and psychology. The book is organized in five thematic parts, investigating connections between philosophical and linguistic studies of causation; presenting novel methodologies for studying the representation of causation; tackling central issues in syntactic and semantic representation of causal relations; and introducing recent advances in philosophical thinking on causation.
Beyond its thematic organization, readers will find several recurring topics throughout this book, such as the attempt to reduce causality to other non-causal terms; causal pluralism vs. one all-encompassing account for causation; causal relations pertaining to the mental as opposed to the physical realm, and more. This collection also lays the foundation for questioning whether it is possible to evaluate available philosophical approaches to causation against the variety of linguistic phenomena ranging across diverse lexical and grammatical items, such as bound morphemes, prepositions, connectives, and verbs. Above all, it lays the groundwork for considering whether the fruits of the psychological-cognitive study of the perception of causal relations may contribute to linguistic and philosophical studies, and whether insights from linguistics can benefit the other two disciplines.Keywords
- Causation Normativity
- Causation Philosophy
- Cognitive Psychological Concepts Causation
- Counterfactual Account Causation
- Dependency Account Causation
- Force Dynamic Account Causation
- Lexical Causation
- Production Accounts of Causation
- Causation Linguistic
- Object Experiencer Nominalizations
- Causation Psychology
- Causative constructions
- Causative verbs
- Causality languages
- Causation Big Data
- Counterfactual reasoning
Editors and Affiliations
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Language, Logic and Cognition Center, The Department of Hebrew Language, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem, Israel
Elitzur A. Bar-Asher Siegal
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Language, Logic and Cognition Center, The Linguistic Department, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem, Israel
Nora Boneh
About the editors
Nora Boneh (PhD 2003, Université Paris 8, Saint Denis) joined the LinguisticsDepartment at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in 2007, after being a research and teaching associate at the universities of Paris 7, Denis Diderot and Paris 8, Saint Denis. Her research topics include the study of the linguistic manifestation of conceptual categories such as temporality, possession, and causation; within this exploration, particular attention is given to complex verb constructions, mainly from a syntactic synchronic perspective, but also from a historical one. She has mostly worked on the expression of habituality, on the aspectual properties of the Modern Hebrew and Biblical Hebrew verbal systems, and their stability over time, on argument realization and the syntax of ditransitive verbs and datival arguments, and on causative constructions. Her linguistic analyses are carried out in semi-typological perspective applied to languages such as Hebrew, dialectal Arabic, French, English and Russian.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Perspectives on Causation
Book Subtitle: Selected Papers from the Jerusalem 2017 Workshop
Editors: Elitzur A. Bar-Asher Siegal, Nora Boneh
Series Title: Jerusalem Studies in Philosophy and History of Science
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-34308-8
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Religion and Philosophy, Philosophy and Religion (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-34307-1Published: 28 July 2020
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-34310-1Published: 29 July 2021
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-34308-8Published: 27 July 2020
Series ISSN: 2524-4248
Series E-ISSN: 2524-4256
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVI, 482
Number of Illustrations: 324 b/w illustrations, 6 illustrations in colour
Topics: Philosophy of Language, Semantics, Cognitive Psychology, Philosophy of Science