' complex, but clearly set out, and it certainly constitutes a significant contribution to professional discussion of the issue'
Jonathan Cohen, Times Literary Supplement
'I am full of admiration for the rigorous but imaginative argumentation of the book. The book is likely to stand for some time as a classic exploration of the possibilities of a realist metaphysics of causation.'
Peter Menzies, University of Sydney. Australasian Journal of Philosophy
'contains useful and interesting discussions of the nature of causal priority, and the related question of the possibility of a causal theory of time ... there can be no doubting the value and interest of Tooley's thorough and systematic defense of causal and nomic realism'
John Bishop, University of Auckland, Review of Metaphysics, December 1991
'workmanlike, technically proficient, and well-organized'
.J. Lowe, University of Durham, The Philosophical Quarterly, Vol. 41, No. 165