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Hunting causes and using them : approaches in philosophy and economics /
Hunting Causes and Using Them argues that causation is not one thing, as commonly assumed, but many. There is a huge variety of causal relations, each with different characterizing features, different methods for discovery and different uses to which it can be put. In this collection of new and prev...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2007.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- PART I. PLURALITY IN CAUSALITY. Preamble
- Causation: one word, many things
- Causal claims: warranting them and using them
- Where is the theory in our 'theories' of causality?
- PART II. CASE STUDIES: BAYES NETS AND INVARIANCE THEORIES. Preamble
- What is wrong with Bayes nets?
- Modularity: it can- and generally does- fail
- Against modularity, the causal Markov condition and any link between the two: comments on Hausman and Woodward
- From metaphysics to method: comments on manipulability and the causal Markov condition
- Two theorems on invariance and causality
- PART III. CAUSAL THEORIES IN ECONOMICS. Preamble
- Probabilities and experiments
- How to get causes from probabilities: Cartwright on Simon on causation
- The merger of cause and strategy: Hoover on Simon on causation
- The vanity of rigour in economics: theoretical models and Galilean experiments
- Counterfactuals in economics: a commentary
- Bibliography
- Index.