Causation in science and the methods of scientific discovery:
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| Physical Description: | xiii, 278 Seiten Diagramme |
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Contents
List of Figures XV
Part I. Science and Philosophy
1. Metascience and Better Science 3
science - philosophy - norms
2. Do We Need Causation in Science? 11
scepticism - observation - empiricism
3. Evidence of Causation Is Not Causation 19
ontology - epistemology - operationalism
Part II. Perfect Correlation
4. What's in a Correlation? 29
regularities - statistics - coincidences
5. Same Cause, Same Effect 37
robustness - irregularities - falsification
6. Under Ideal Conditions 46
idealization - generality - exception
7. One Effect, One Cause? 53
complexity - background conditions - triggers
Part III. Interference and Prevention
8. Have Your Cause and Beat It 63
interference - intervention - causal expansion
9. From Regularities to Tendencies 71
incidence - tendencies - vector models
10. The Modality of Causation 79
dispositionality - necessity - powers
Part IV, Causal Mechanisms
11. Is the Business of Science to Construct Theories? 89
raw data - theory development - underdetermination
xii CONTENTS
12. Are More Data Better? 97
induction - causal uniqueness - dispositionalism - evidence base
13. The Explanatory Power of Mechanisms 104
mechanisms - quantitative - qualitative
14. Digging Deeper to Find the Real Causes? 112
reductionism - levels - emergence - demergence
Part V. Linking Causes to Effects
15. Making a Difference 123
comparison - counterfactuals - overdetermination
16. Making Nothing Happen 131
stability - homeostasis - absences
17. It All Started with a Big Bang 139
causal chains - determinism - transitivity
18. Does Science Need Laws of Nature? 146
governance - properties - covering law
Part VI. Probability
19. Uncertainty, Certainty, and Beyond 157
probability - Bayesianism - credence
20. What Probabilistic Causation Should Be 165
chance - frequentism - propensities - overdisposing
21. Calculating Conditional Probability? 174
ratio formula - conditionals - compositionality
Part VII. External Validity
22. Risky Predictions 185
uncertainty - fallibility - external validity
23. What RCTs Do Not Show 194
variation - exclusion - bias - policy
Part VIII. Discovering Causes and Understanding Them
24. Getting Involved 205
manipulation - presuppositions - processed data
25. Uncovering Causal Powers 212
technology - hidden powers - side effects
CONTENTS Xiii
26. Learning from Causal Failure 220
diminishing returns - negative results - discrepancies
27. Plural Methods, One Causation 227
pluralism - primitivism - evidence hierarchies
28. Getting Real about the Ideals of Science 237
reproducibility - replicability - messiness
Conclusion: New Norms of Science 245
References 255
Index 271 |
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