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Causality: philosophical theory meets scientific practice/
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Oxford:
Oxford University Press,
2014.
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Table of Contents:
- 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.