TY  - BOOK
AU  - Illari,Phyllis McKay
AU  - Russo,Federica
TI  - Causality: philosophical theory meets scientific practice 
SN  - 9780199662678
AV  - Q175.32.C38 I45 2014
U1  - 501 23
PY  - 2014///
CY  - Oxford, United Kingdom
PB  - Oxford University Press
KW  - Science
KW  - Philosophy
KW  - Causation
KW  - Causality
KW  - fast
KW  - Wissenschaftliches Arbeiten
KW  - gnd
KW  - Kausalität
KW  - Vetenskapsteori
KW  - sao
KW  - Kausalitet
N1  - 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
ER  -