Causation in Science and the Methods of Scientific Discovery

by Stephen Mumford and Rani Lill Anjum

Some of the chief goals of science - understanding, explanation, prediction, and application in new technologies - can only be conducted with any purpose if the world has some significant degree of constancy in what follows from what. While causal questions are relevant to all sciences and social sciences, how we discover causal connections is no easy matter. What is the source of such predictability and how does it operate? This is a question that...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0198733666
• ISBN13: 9780198733669
• Release Date: December 2018
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.2" x 9.3"