Causation in Science and the Methods of Scientific Discovery

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Product details:

• ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎0191053392
• ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 9780191053399
• Author: Rani Lill Anjum,Stephen Mumford 

Table contents:

I. Science and Philosophy
1. Metascience and Better Science
2. Do We Need Causation in Science?
3. Evidence of Causation is Not Causation
II. Perfect Correlation
4. What s in a Correlation?
5. Same Cause, Same Effect
6. Under Ideal Conditions
7. One Effect, One Cause?
III. Interference and Prevention
8. Have Your Cause and Beat It
9. From Regularities to Tendencies
10. The Modality of Causation
IV. Causal Mechanisms
11. Is the Business of Science to Construct Theories?
12. Is More Data Better?
13. The Explanatory Power of Mechanisms
14. Digging Deeper to Find the Real Causes?
V. Linking Causes to Effects
15. Making a Difference
16. Making Nothing Happen
17. It All Started With a Big Bang
18. Does Science Need Laws of Nature?
VI. Probability
19. Uncertainty, Certainty and Beyond
20. What Probabilistic Causation Should Be
21. Calculating Conditional Probability?
VII. External Validity
22. Risky Predictions
23. What RCTs Do Not Show
VIII. Discovering Causes and Understanding Them
24. Getting Involved
25. Uncovering Causal Powers
26. Learning From Causal Failure
27. Plural Methods, One Causation
28. Getting Real About the Ideals of Science

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