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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...
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| Zusammenfassung: | 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 previously published essays, Nancy Cartwright provides a critical survey of philosophical and economic literature on causality, with a special focus on the currently fashionable Bayes-nets and invariance methods - and it exposes a huge gap in that literature. Almost every account treats either exclusively how to hunt causes or how to use them. But where is the bridge between? It's no good knowing how to warrant a causal claim if we don't know what we can do with that claim once we have it. This book will interest philosophers, economists and social scientists. |
| Beschreibung: | 1 online resource (x, 270 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliographie: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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| contents | 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. |
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| spelling | Cartwright, Nancy. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n82229746 Hunting causes and using them : approaches in philosophy and economics / Nancy Cartwright. Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2007. 1 online resource (x, 270 pages) : illustrations text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier Includes bibliographical references and index. Print version record. 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 previously published essays, Nancy Cartwright provides a critical survey of philosophical and economic literature on causality, with a special focus on the currently fashionable Bayes-nets and invariance methods - and it exposes a huge gap in that literature. Almost every account treats either exclusively how to hunt causes or how to use them. But where is the bridge between? It's no good knowing how to warrant a causal claim if we don't know what we can do with that claim once we have it. This book will interest philosophers, economists and social scientists. 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. Causation. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85021459 Science Philosophy. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85118582 Economics Philosophy. Économie politique Philosophie. PHILOSOPHY Epistemology. bisacsh Causation fast Economics Philosophy fast Science Philosophy fast Wirtschaftswissenschaften gnd http://d-nb.info/gnd/4066528-8 Kausalität gnd http://d-nb.info/gnd/4030102-3 Wirtschaftstheorie gnd has work: Hunting causes and using them (Text) https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PCGHb8GBP4BHVqh8rcPhvHC https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/ontology/hasWork Print version: Cartwright, Nancy. Hunting causes and using them. Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2007 9780521860819 0521860814 (OCoLC)71347550 FWS01 ZDB-4-EBA FWS_PDA_EBA https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=198859 Volltext |
| spellingShingle | Cartwright, Nancy Hunting causes and using them : approaches in philosophy and economics / 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. Causation. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85021459 Science Philosophy. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85118582 Economics Philosophy. Économie politique Philosophie. PHILOSOPHY Epistemology. bisacsh Causation fast Economics Philosophy fast Science Philosophy fast Wirtschaftswissenschaften gnd http://d-nb.info/gnd/4066528-8 Kausalität gnd http://d-nb.info/gnd/4030102-3 Wirtschaftstheorie gnd |
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| title_full | Hunting causes and using them : approaches in philosophy and economics / Nancy Cartwright. |
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| topic | Causation. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85021459 Science Philosophy. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85118582 Economics Philosophy. Économie politique Philosophie. PHILOSOPHY Epistemology. bisacsh Causation fast Economics Philosophy fast Science Philosophy fast Wirtschaftswissenschaften gnd http://d-nb.info/gnd/4066528-8 Kausalität gnd http://d-nb.info/gnd/4030102-3 Wirtschaftstheorie gnd |
| topic_facet | Causation. Science Philosophy. Economics Philosophy. Économie politique Philosophie. PHILOSOPHY Epistemology. Causation Economics Philosophy Science Philosophy Wirtschaftswissenschaften Kausalität Wirtschaftstheorie |
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