Revitalizing causality
Subtitle: realism about causality in philosophy and social science
By: edited by Ruth Groff.
Contributors: Groff, Ruth, 1963-
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Abingdon, Oxon; N.Y., NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 272
ISBN-13: 9780415372183; 9780203932636
Subjects: Causation; Social sciences -- Philosophy; Critical realism
Table of contents: title: Key formulations. Critical realism and substance / Roy Wood Sellars; Causality and substance / Roy Wood Sellars; Essence and accident / Irving Copi; Conceptual and natural necessity / Rom Harre and E.H. Madden; Powers and dispositions / Brian Ellis; title: Realism about causality in philosophy. Meaning, truth and causal explanation: the Humean condition revisited / Christopher Norris; Aristotelian powers / Charlotte Witt; Powers, dispositions, properties / Stephan Mumford; Inessential Aristotle: powers without essences / Anjan Chravartty; Causal exclusion and evolved emergent properties / Alexander Bird; Are there natural kinds in psychology? / Rachel Cooper; title: Realism about causality in social science. Sociology's causal confusion / Douglas Porpora; The mother of all isms: causal mechanisms in political science / Andrew Bennett; Marxisn crisis theory and causality /   Robert Albritton; On the clear comprehension of political economy: social kinds and the significance of Marx's capital / Howard Engelskirchen.