The chances of explanation: causal explanation in the social, medical, and physical sciences
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| adam_text | Titel: The chances of explanation
Autor: Humphreys, Paul
Jahr: 1989
CON TENTS
PREFACE ix
CHAPTER ONE. Traditional Causation 3
§1 Scope of the Work 3
§2 Methodology 4
§3 An Example 6
§4 The Multiplicity of Causes 7
§5 The Incompleteness of Causal Knowledge 8
§6 The Principle of Causal Contribution 9
§7 Sufficiency Theories of Causation 9
§8 Sine Qua Non Analyses of Causation 12
§9 Why Sine Qua Non Analyses Are Inadequate 13
§10 Indeterminism 16
§11 Chance and Cause 18
CHAPTER two. Probabilistic Causation 22
§12* Ontology 22
§13* Assumptions for Quantitative Probabilistic Causality 26
§14 The Binary Case 34
§15 The Contrast Case 37
§16 How This Affects Relative Frequentists 45
§17 A Tripartite Distinction 46
§18 Passive Empiricism and the Trivialization Problem 47
§19 Antiformalism 53
§20 Experimental Contexts and Regularities 55
§21 An Argument for Unobserved Structures 58
CHAPTER THREE. Cause and Chance 61
§22 Chance 61
§23 Common Causes and Structural Stability 66
§24 The Probabilistic Case 70
§25 Mill s Unconditionality Requirement 72
§26 Consequences 75
viii Contents
§27 Further Discussion 80
§28 The Scope of the Theory 88
§29 Causation as Inductively Defined 89
§30 Contributing Causes and Necessary Conditions 93
§31 Counteracting Causes 94
§32 Are Processes or Mechanisms Necessary? 95
CHAPTER FOUR. Scientific Explanations 98
§33 Introduction 98
§34 The Canonical Form for Linguistic Explanations 100
§35 Explanatory Ontology 103
§36 The Deterministic Case 104
§37 Detailed Specification of Events 107
§38 Why Probability Values Are Not Explanatory 109
§39 On the Very Possibility of Explaining Chancy Events 117
§40 Testing the Account 118
§41 The Pragmatics of Causal Explanations 126
§42 Why Ask Why-Questions? 132
§43 Explanatory Knowledge 138
appendix ONE.* Covariance Measures 143
APPENDIX TWO.* Extension of the Basic Quantitative
Theory 145
APPENDIX THREE.* Transitivity and Negative Links 153
REFERENCES 158
INDEX 167
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