Causality
Philosophical Theory meets Scientific Practice
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 2 October 2014
- ISBN 9780199662678
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages328 pages
- Size 241x158x22 mm
- Weight 588 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 8 b/w line drawings 0
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Short description:
Scientific and philosophical literature on causality has become highly specialised. It is hard to find suitable access points for students, young researchers, or professionals outside this domain. This book provides a guide to the complex literature, explains the scientific problems of causality and the philosophical tools needed to address them.
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Head hits cause brain damage - but not always. Should we ban sport to protect athletes? Exposure to electromagnetic fields is strongly associated with cancer development - does that mean exposure causes cancer? Should we encourage old fashioned communication instead of mobile phones to reduce cancer rates? According to popular wisdom, the Mediterranean diet keeps you healthy. Is this belief scientifically sound? Should public health bodies encourage consumption of fresh fruit and vegetables? Severe financial constraints on research and public policy, media pressure, and public anxiety make such questions of immense current concern not just to philosophers but to scientists, governments, public bodies, and the general public.
In the last decade there has been an explosion of theorizing about causality in philosophy, and also in the sciences. This literature is both fascinating and important, but it is involved and highly technical. This makes it inaccessible to many who would like to use it, philosophers and scientists alike.
This book is an introduction to philosophy of causality - one that is highly accessible: to scientists unacquainted with philosophy, to philosophers unacquainted with science, and to anyone else lost in the labyrinth of philosophical theories of causality. It presents key philosophical accounts, concepts and methods, using examples from the sciences to show how to apply philosophical debates to scientific problems.
Causality is a hot topic in philosophy of science. Illari (lecturer, University College London) and Russo (researcher, Univ. of Ferrara, Italy) provide a much-needed travel guide through this landscape while sticking close to actual scientific practice from both the natural and social sciences. ... Highly recommended.
Table of Contents:
I PRELUDE TO CAUSALITY
Problems of causality in the sciences
A scientific toolbox for philosophy
A philosophical toolbox for science
II CAUSALITY: ACCOUNTS, CONCEPTS, AND METHODS
Necessary and sufficient components
Levels of causation
Causality and evidence
Causal methods: probing the data
Difference-making: probabilistic causality
Difference-making: counterfactuals
Difference-making: manipulation and invariance
Production accounts: processes
Production accounts: mechanisms
Production accounts: information
Capacities, powers, dispositions
Regularity
Variation
Causality and action
Causality and inference
III APPROACHES TO EXAMINING CAUSALITY
How we got to the Causality in the Sciences approach (CitS)
Examples and counterexamples
Truth or models?
Epistemology, metaphysics, method, semantics, use
IV CONCLUSION: TOWARDS A CAUSAL MOSAIC
Pluralism
The causal mosaic under construction: the example of exposomics
