Causality: philosophical theory meets scientific practice Phyllis Illari, University College London, Federica Russo, Universiteit van Amsterdam.
Publisher: Oxford, United Kingdom : Oxford University Press, 2014Edition: First editionDescription: xiv, 310 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780199662678 (hardback); 0199662673 (hardback)Subject(s): Science -- Philosophy | Causation | Causality | Causation | Science -- PhilosophyDDC classification: 501 LOC classification: Q175.32.C38 | I45 2014| Item type | Current library | Collection | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 281-302) and index.
Prelude to causality. Problems of causality in the sciences -- A 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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