Causal explanation for social scientists
Subtitle: a reader
By: edited by Andrew P. Vayda and Bradley B. Walters
Publisher: AltaMira Press, a division of Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Lanham
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780759113251; 9780759113268
Subjects: Causation; Philosophy; Social sciences; Research
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : pragmatic methods and causal-history explanations / Andrew P. Vayda and Bradley B. Walters; title: Causal explanation / David Lewis; title: The notion of witchcraft explains unfortunate events / E.E. Evans-Pritchard; title: Geertz and the interpretive approach in anthropology / Michael Martin; title: The range and power of narrative style in science / Stephen Jay Gould; title: Famines / Amartya Sen; title: Analysis or reductionism? / Ernst Mayr; title: The role of fact in the particular and the general / R.C. Lewontin; title: Explanatory relativity / Alan Garfinkel; title: Homage to Clio, or, toward an historical philosophy for evolutionary biology / Robert J. O'Hara; title: Plague and fertility in early modern Europe / Geoffrey Hawthorn; title: Thermostats, lemons, and other families of models / Thomas C. Schelling; title: Rice harvesting : a view from the theory of common property / N.H. Sturgess and Hesti R. Wijaya; title: Statistical models and shoe leather / David A. Freedman; title: The method of multiple working hypotheses / T.C. Chamberlin; title: Confirmation bias : a ubiquitous phenomenon in many guises / Raymond S. Nickerson; title: The last northern cod / Thomas R. McGuire; title: The body of the detective model : Charles S. Peirce and Edgar Allan Poe / Nancy Harrowitz; title: Thinking and reasoning in medicine / Vimla L. Patel, Jose F. Arocha, and Jiajie Zhang; title: On types of scientific inquiry : the role of qualitative reasoning / David A. Freedman; title: Counterfactuals and revisionism in historical explanation / Ross Hassig; title: The obsessional search for meaning / Jon Elster; title: Confirmation bias in consequence explanations / Andrew P. Vayda; title: Dos and don'ts in interdisciplinary research on causes of fires in tropical moist forests : examples from Indonesia / Andrew P. Vayda; title: Critical regions, ecosystem management, and human ecosystem research / Thomas K. Rudel.