Nancy Cartwright

Hunting Causes and Using Them

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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 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 whe… Mehr

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Produktdetails

ISBN: 978-0-521-86081-9
EAN: 9780521860819
Produktnummer: 2381627
Verlag: Cambridge University Press
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2015
Seitenangabe: 282 S.
Masse: H23.5 cm x B15.7 cm x D2.1 cm 590 g
Abbildungen: HC gerader Rücken kaschiert
Gewicht: 590

Über den Autor

Nancy Cartwright is Professor of Philosophy at the London School of Economics and Political Science and at the University of California, San Diego. Her many publications include The Dappled World (1999).