Screen LibraryCausality in the sciences /
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Oxford University Press,
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| Publisher Address: | Oxford ; New York : |
| Publication Dates: | 2011. |
| Literature type: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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| Online Access: |
http://www.iresearchbook.cn/f/ebook/detail?id=b4342eb7b6234310bd1097d71e3643ad |
| Carrier Form: | 1 online resource (xiii, 938 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: |
9780191060328 9780199574131 |
| Index Number: | Q175 |
| CLC: | N02 |
| Contents: |
Introduction -- Why look at causality in the sciences? A manifesto / Health sciences -- Causality, theories and medicine / Inferring causation in epidemiology: Mechanisms, black boxes, and contrasts / Causal modeling, mechanism, and probability in epidemiology / The IARC and mechanistic evidence / The Russo-Williamson thesis and the question of whether smoking causes heart disease / Psychology -- Causal thinking / When and how do people reason about unobserved causes? / Counterfactual and generative accounts of causal attribution / The autonomy of psychology in the age of neuroscience / Turing machines and causal mechanisms in cognitive science / Real causes and ideal manipulations: Pearl's theory of causal inference from the point of view of psychological research methods / Social sciences -- Causal mechanisms in the social realm / Getting past Hume in the philosophy of social science / Causal explanation: Recursive decompositions and mechanisms / Counterfactuals and causal structure / The error term and its interpretation in structural models in econometrics / A comprehensive causality test based on the singular spectrum analysis / Natural sciences -- Mechanism schemas and the relationship between biological theories / Chances and causes in evolutionary biology: How many chances become one chance / Drift and the causes of evolution / In defense of a causal requirement on explanation / Epistemological issues raised by research on climate change / Explicating the notion of 'causation' : the role of extensive quantities / Causal completeness of probability theories -- results and open problems / Causality workbench / When are graphical causal models not good models? / Why making Bayesian networks objectively Bayesian makes sense / Probabilistic measures of causal strength / A new causal power theory / Multiple testing of causal hypotheses / Measuring latent causal structure / The structural theory of causation / Defining and identifying the effect of treatment on the treated / Predicting 'it will work for us' : (way) beyond statistics / Causality and mechanisms -- The idea of mechanism / Singular and general causal relations : a mechanist perspective / Mechanisms are real and local / Mechanistic information and causal continuity / The causal-process-model theory of mechanisms / Mechanisms in dynamically complex systems / Third time's a charm : Causation, science and Wittgensteinian pluralism / |