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Causality in the Sciences (Hardcover)
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Causality in the Sciences (Hardcover)
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There is a need for integrated thinking about causality,
probability and mechanisms in scientific methodology. Causality and
probability are long-established central concepts in the sciences,
with a corresponding philosophical literature examining their
problems. On the other hand, the philosophical literature examining
mechanisms is not long-established, and there is no clear idea of
how mechanisms relate to causality and probability. But we need
some idea if we are to understand causal inference in the sciences:
a panoply of disciplines, ranging from epidemiology to biology,
from econometrics to physics, routinely make use of probability,
statistics, theory and mechanisms to infer causal relationships.
These disciplines have developed very different methods, where
causality and probability often seem to have different
understandings, and where the mechanisms involved often look very
different. This variegated situation raises the question of whether
the different sciences are really using different concepts, or
whether progress in understanding the tools of causal inference in
some sciences can lead to progress in other sciences. The book
tackles these questions as well as others concerning the use of
causality in the sciences.
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