Revitalizing causality
Subtitle: realism about causality in philosophy and social science
By: edited by Ruth Groff
Series: Routledge studies in critical realism -- 18
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2008
Place of publication: London; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 265
ISBN-13: 9780415372183; 9780203932636
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : realism about causality / Ruth Groff; title: Key formulations; title: Critical realism and substance / Roy Wood Sellars; title: Causality and substance / Roy Wood Sellars; title: Essence and accident / Irving M. Copi; title: Conceptual and natural necessity / Rom Harre and E.H. Madden; title: Powers and dispositions / Brian Ellis; title: Realism about causality in philosophy; title: Meaning, truth, and causal explanation : the 'Humean condition' revisited / Christopher Norris; title: Aristotelian powers / Charlotte Witt; title: Powers, dispositions, properties or a causal realist manifesto / Stephan Mumford; title: Inessential Aristotle : powers without essences / Anjan Chravartty; title: Causal exclusion and evolved emergent properties / Alexander Bird; title: Are there natural kinds in psychology? / Rachel Cooper; title: Realism about causality in social science; title: Sociology's causal confusion / Douglas Porpora; title: The mother of all "isms" : organizing political science around causal mechanisms / Andrew Bennett; title: Marxian crisis theory and causality /   Robert Albritton; title: On the clear comprehension of political economy : social kinds and the significance of Section 2 of Marx's capital / Howard Engelskirchen.