Carregando...

Causality: philosophical theory meets scientific practice/

Detalhes bibliográficos
Autor principal: Illari, Phyllis
Outros Autores: Russo, Federica
Formato: Printed Book
Publicado em: Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014.
Assuntos:
LEADER 01860cam a22002057i 4500
020 |a 9780199662678 
082 0 4 |a 501  |b Q4 
100 1 |a Illari, Phyllis   |9 37875 
245 1 0 |a Causality:  |b philosophical theory meets scientific practice/  |c Phyllis Illari and Federica Russo. 
260 |a Oxford:  |b Oxford University Press,  |c 2014. 
300 |a xiv, 310p.  |b illustrations ; 
504 |a Includes bibliographical references (pages 281-302) and index. 
505 0 |a Prelude to causality. Problems of causality in the sciences -- A scientific toolbox for philosophy -- A philosophical toolbox for science -- Causality : accounts, concepts and methods. Necessary and sufficient components -- Levels of causation -- Causality and evidence -- Casual methods : probing the data -- Difference-making : probabilistic causality -- Difference-making : counterfactuals -- Difference-making : manipulation and invariance -- Production accounts : processes -- Production accounts : mechanisms -- Production accounts : information -- Capacities, powers, dispositions -- Regularity -- Variation -- Causality and action -- Causality and inference -- Approaches to examining causality. How we got to the causality in the sciences approach (CITS) -- Examples and counterexamples -- Truth or models? -- Epistemology, metaphysics, method, semantics, use -- Conclusion : towards a causal mosaic. Pluralism -- The causal mosaic under construction : the example of exposomics -- Appendix. Accounts, concepts and methods : summary tables. 
650 0 |a Science-Philosophy.  |9 37938 
650 0 |a Causation.  |9 37877 
650 1 2 |a Causality.  |9 37878 
700 1 |a Russo, Federica.  |9 37879 
942 |c BK 
999 |c 80466  |d 80466 
952 |0 0  |1 0  |4 0  |6 501_000000000000000_Q4  |7 0  |9 72489  |a MGUL  |b MGUL  |c GEN  |d 2016-01-05  |e Current books Kottyam Bill No 000645 dated 30/12/2016  |g 29.99  |l 0  |o 501 Q4  |p 53673  |r 2016-02-29  |y BK