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adam_text | Titel: A theory of causation in the social and biological sciences
Autor: Reutlinger, Alexander
Jahr: 2013
Contents
List of Figures x
Acknowledgements xi
PART I CAUSATION IN THE SPECIAL SCIENCES AND THE
INTERVENTIONIST THEORY OF CAUSATION
1 Causation in the Special Sciences 3
Explicating causation in the special sciences:
Criteria of adequacy 11
Outline of the book 21
2 The Interventionist Theory of Causation 25
The interventionist explication of causation 25
The formal background of interventionist
theories: causal graphs and Bayesian networks 39
Is the interventionist theory adequate? 51
Conclusion 70
PART II WHAT IS WRONG WITH INTERVENTIONIST
THEORIES
3 Counterfactuals: A Problem for Interventionists? 73
Interventionist theories of causation involve
counterfactuals 73
A problem for interventionists: truth conditions
for counterfactuals 75
The easy way out: standard possible worlds semantics 79
The interventionist critique of possible worlds semantics 82
Modifying possible worlds semantics 87
Modified Goodmanian semantics 92
The suppositional view: the pragmatic meaning
of counterfactuals 99
Conclusion 101
4 Getting Rid of Interventions 104
Introduction 104
Woodward s concept of intervention 106
A counter-example: why some interventions are
not even physically possible 107
Two arguments against the need for logically possible
interventions 112
A reconciling remark 122
Conclusion 123
5 Non-Universal Laws 125
Why we need a theory of non-universal laws 125
Challenge I: falsity and triviality 130
Challenge II: the requirement of relevance 131
Four dimensions of non-universal laws 132
Meeting the challenges: Lange s Dilemma and the
requirement of relevance 143
Conclusion: the explication of special science laws 145
6 Woodward Meets Russell: Does Causation Fit into
the World of Physics? 146
Non-reductive explications of causation
and metaphysics 146
Russell on causation and the neo-Russellian claim 150
The interventionist open-systems argument 156
The statistical-mechanical argument 165
Conclusion 173
PART III AN ALTERNATIVE THEORY OF CAUSATION
IN SPECIAL SCIENCES
7 In Defence of Conceptually Non-Reductive
Explications of Causation 177
Conceptually non-reductive explications of causation 177
A reductive analysis of causation: Lewis s
counterfactual theory 180
The trade-off argument for non-reductive approaches 181
The objection against non-reductive approaches 187
Defending non-reductive explications 188
Conclusion 197
8 The Comparative Variability Theory of
Causation 199
From interventions to comparative variability 199
Comparative variability semantics for counterfactuals 204
The comparative variability theory: definitions 209
An adequate explication of causation 217
Conclusion 231
9 Consequences 233
Causal explanation 233
Mechanistic models 241
Dispositions 244
Conclusion and outlook 245
Notes 252
Bibliography 264
Index 275
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