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Causal explanation for social scientists : a reader. edited by Andrew P. Vayda and Bradley B. Walters

Vayda, Andrew Peter Walters, Bradley B ccop. 2011

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  • Title:
    Causal explanation for social scientists : a reader. edited by Andrew P. Vayda and Bradley B. Walters
  • Author: Vayda, Andrew Peter;
    Walters, Bradley B
  • Subjects: Social sciences -- Research -- Philosophy;
    Causalité;
    Sociologie -- Recherche;
    Causation
  • Description: Notes bibliogr. Index
    Introduction : pragmatic methods and causal-history explanations / Andrew P. Vayda and Bradley B. Walters Causal explanation / David Lewis The notion of witchcraft explains unfortunate events / E.E. Evans-Pritchard Geertz and the interpretive approach in anthropology / Michael Martin The range and power of narrative style in science / Stephen Jay Gould Famines / Amartya Sen Analysis or reductionism? / Ernst Mayr The role of fact in the particular and the general / R.C. Lewontin Explanatory relativity / Alan Garfinkel Homage to Clio, or, toward an historical philosophy for evolutionary biology / Robert J. O'Hara Plague and fertility in early modern Europe / Geoffrey Hawthorn Thermostats, lemons, and other families of models / Thomas C. Schelling Rice harvesting : a view from the theory of common property / N.H. Sturgess and Hesti R. Wijaya Statistical models and shoe leather / David A. Freedman The method of multiple working hypotheses / T.C. Chamberlin Confirmation bias : a ubiquitous phenomenon in many guises / Raymond S. Nickerson The last northern cod / Thomas R. McGuire The body of the detective model : Charles S. Peirce and Edgar Allan Poe / Nancy Harrowitz Thinking and reasoning in medicine / Vimla L. Patel, Jose F. Arocha, and Jiajie Zhang On types of scientific inquiry : the role of qualitative reasoning / David A. Freedman Counterfactuals and revisionism in historical explanation / Ross Hassig The obsessional search for meaning / Jon Elster Confirmation bias in consequence explanations / Andrew P. Vayda Dos and don'ts in interdisciplinary research on causes of fires in tropical moist forests : examples from Indonesia / Andrew P. Vayda Critical regions, ecosystem management, and human ecosystem research / Thomas K. Rudel
  • Publisher: Lanham, Md. New York Tronto etc. : AltaMira Press, ccop. 2011
  • Creation Date: ccop. 2011
  • Format: 1 vol. (xvi-320 p.) ; 23 cm
  • Language: English
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