The Chances of Explanation: Causal Explanation in the Social, Medical, and Physical Sciences

by Paul Humphreys

Book Overview

This book provides a post-positivist theory of deterministic and probabilistic causality that supports both quantitative and qualitative explanations. Features of particular interest include the ability to provide true explanations in contexts where our knowledge is incomplete, a systematic interpretation of causal modeling techniques in the social sciences, and a direct realist view of causal relations that is compatible with a liberal empiricism...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691605823
• ISBN13: 9780691605821
• Release Date: July 2014
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 182 Pages
• Weight: 0.58 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.1" x 9.2"