The anti-causal prophecies of last century have been disproved.
Causality is neither a relic of a bygone nor another fetish of
modern science; it still occupies a large part of the current
debate in philosophy and the sciences.
This investigation into causal modelling presents the rationale
of causality, i.e. the notion that guides causal reasoning in
causal modelling. It is argued that causal models are regimented by
a rationale of variation, nor of regularity neither invariance,
thus breaking down the dominant Human paradigm. The notion of
variation is shown to be embedded in the scheme of reasoning behind
various causal models: e.g. Rubin s model, contingency tables, and
multilevel analysis. It is also shown to be latent yet fundamental
in many philosophical accounts. Moreover, it has significant
consequences for methodological issues: the warranty of the causal
interpretation of causal models, the levels of causation, the
characterisation of mechanisms, and the interpretation of
probability.
This book offers a novel philosophical and methodological
approach to causal reasoning in causal modelling and provides the
reader with the tools to be up to date about various issues
causality rises in social science.
"Dr. Federica Russo's book is a very valuable addition to a
small number of relevant publications on causality and causal
modelling in the social sciences viewed from a philosophical
approach." (Prof. Guillaume Wunsch, Institute of Demography,
University of Louvain, Belgium)"
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