• Media type: Book
  • Title: Causality in the sciences
  • Contains: Machine generated contents note:pt. IIntroduction ; 1.Why look at causality in the sciences? A manifesto / Jon Williamson
    11.Turing machines and causal mechanisms in cognitive science / Anna-Mari Rusanen
    29.Probabilistic measures of causal strength / Christopher Hitchcock
    pt. IIHealth sciences ; 2.Causality, theories and medicine / R. Paul Thompson
    3.Inferring causation in epidemiology: Mechanisms, black boxes, and contrasts / Alex Broadbent
    4.Causal modeling, mechanism, and probability in epidemiology / Harold Kincaid
    5.The IARC and mechanistic evidence / Erik Weber
    6.The Russo-Williamson thesis and the question of whether smoking causes heart disease / Donald Gillies
    pt. IIIPsychology ; 7.Causal thinking / David Lagnado
    8.When and how do people reason about unobserved causes? / Christian Luhmann
    9.Counterfactual and generative accounts of causal attribution / Steven A. Sloman
    10.The autonomy of psychology in the age of neuroscience / Carl Gillett
    12.Real causes and ideal manipulations: Pearl's theory of causal inference from the point of view of psychological research methods / Keith A. Markus
    pt. IVSocial sciences ; 13.Causal mechanisms in the social realm / Daniel Little
    14.Getting past Hume in the philosophy of social science / Ruth Groff
    15.Causal explanation: Recursive decompositions and mechanisms / Federica Russo
    16.Counterfactuals and causal structure / Kevin D. Hoover
    17.The error term and its interpretation in structural models in econometrics / Damien Fennell
    18.A comprehensive causality test based on the singular spectrum analysis / Abdol S. Soofi
    pt. VNatural sciences ; 19.Mechanism schemas and the relationship between biological theories / Tudor M. Baetu
    20.Chances and causes in evolutionary biology: How many chances become one chance / Roberta L. Millstein
    21.Drift and the causes of evolution / Sahotra Sarkar
    22.In defense of a causal requirement on explanation / Garrett Pendergraft
    23.Epistemological issues raised by research on climate change / Paolo Vineis
    24.Explicating the notion of 'causation' : the role of extensive quantities / Antonio Saggion
    25.Causal completeness of probability theories ; results and open problems / Balaza Gyenis
    pt. VI Computer science, probability, and statistics ; 26.Causality workbench / Alexander Statnikov
    27.When are graphical causal models not good models? / Abdellah Touhafi
    28.Why making Bayesian networks objectively Bayesian makes sense / Dawn E. Holmes
    30.A new causal power theory / Lucas Hope
    . 31Multiple testing of causal hypotheses / Bud Mishra
    32.Measuring latent causal structure / Ricardo Silva
    33.The structural theory of causation / Judea Pearl
    34.Defining and identifying the effect of treatment on the treated / A. Philip Dawid
    35.Predicting 'it will work for us' : (way) beyond statistics / Nancy Cartwright
    pt. VIICausality and mechanisms ; 36.The idea of mechanism / Stathis Psillos
    37.Singular and general causal relations : a mechanist perspective / Stuart Glennan
    38.Mechanisms are real and local / Jon Williamson
    39.Mechanistic information and causal continuity / Peter Machamer
    40.The causal-process-model theory of mechanisms / Phil Dowe
    41.Mechanisms in dynamically complex systems / Meinard Kuhlmann
    42.Third time's a charm : Causation, science and Wittgensteinian pluralism / Julian Reiss.
  • Contributor: Illari, Phyllis [Editor]; Russo, Federica [Editor]; Williamson, Jon [Editor]
  • Published: Oxford; New York; Auckland: Oxford University Press, 2011
  • Extent: xiii, 938 Seiten; Illustrationen
  • Language: English
  • ISBN: 0199574138; 9780199574131
  • RVK notation: TB 6200 : Naturwissenschaften und Philosophie
    CC 3200 : Abhandlungen zur allgemeinen Wissenschaftstheorie
    CC 3100 : Einführungen, Lehrbücher, Sammelbände etc.
    AK 22800 : Erklärung und Kausalität
  • Keywords: Naturwissenschaften > Kausalität
    Kausalität > Philosophie > Wissenschaftstheorie
    Kausalität
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  • Footnote: Includes bibliographical references and index

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