Causality philosophical theory meets scientific practice
Prelude to causality. Problems of causality in the sciencesA scientific toolbox for philosophy -- A philosophical toolbox for science -- Causality : accounts, concepts and methods. Necessary and sufficient components -- Levels of causation -- Causality and evidence -- Casual methods : probing the da...
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Oxford University Press
2014
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Tag hinzufügen | Zusammenfassung: | Prelude to causality. Problems of causality in the sciencesA scientific toolbox for philosophy -- A philosophical toolbox for science -- Causality : accounts, concepts and methods. Necessary and sufficient components -- Levels of causation -- Causality and evidence -- Casual methods : probing the data -- Difference-making : probabilistic causality -- Difference-making : counterfactuals -- Difference-making : manipulation and invariance -- Production accounts : processes -- Production accounts : mechanisms -- Production accounts : information -- Capacities, powers, dispositions -- Regularity -- Variation -- Causality and action -- Causality and inference -- Approaches to examining causality. How we got to the causality in the sciences approach (CITS) -- Examples and counterexamples -- Truth or models? -- Epistemology, metaphysics, method, semantics, use -- Conclusion : towards a causal mosaic. Pluralism -- The causal mosaic under construction : the example of exposomics -- Appendix. Accounts, concepts and methods : summary tables. |
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| Beschreibung: | Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 281-302 Hier auch später erschienene, unveränderte Nachdrucke |
| Beschreibung: | xiv, 310 Seiten Diagramme |
| ISBN: | 0199662673 0-19-966267-3 9780199662678 978-0-19-966267-8 |