Causation: A User's Guide 1st Edition

If you are interested in metaphysics or any aspect of causality, this is the best review and analysis of contemporary philosophical thought on the matter I have found

I bought this book to learn more about causation after having read two interesting chapters on it for a class in metaphysics. This was the wrong book for that cause! In short it is a far cry from an introductory text.I have high hopes that this is actually a wonderful book for practitioners in the field of philosophy of causation. Unfortunately for me I believed a positive review that said it would be valuable for practitioners as well as the merely curios. The authors of the book write that they also have that goal for the text. They failed in this goal if they ever really had it. It is not that the text is super hard. I have no issue with reading and rereading paragraphs in tough philosophy books. The problem is that this text assumes you have insights into the important texts and articles of the field and they spend most the time in the book discussing those texts. It simply not worth reading before you have spend a considerable time reading those texts in the field of causation.