Illari, Phyllis McKay,
Causality : philosophical theory meets scientific practice / Phyllis Illari, University College London, Federica Russo, Universiteit van Amsterdam. - First edition. - xiv, 310 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
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.
9780199662678
2014939866
GBB4A5682 bnb
016884765 Uk
Science--Philosophy.
Causation.
Causality.
Causation.
Science--Philosophy.
Wissenschaftliches Arbeiten
Kausalität
Vetenskapsteori.
Kausalitet.
Q175.32.C38 / I45 2014
501
Causality : philosophical theory meets scientific practice / Phyllis Illari, University College London, Federica Russo, Universiteit van Amsterdam. - First edition. - xiv, 310 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
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.
9780199662678
2014939866
GBB4A5682 bnb
016884765 Uk
Science--Philosophy.
Causation.
Causality.
Causation.
Science--Philosophy.
Wissenschaftliches Arbeiten
Kausalität
Vetenskapsteori.
Kausalitet.
Q175.32.C38 / I45 2014
501