Causal explanation for social scientists : a reader.
All social scientists, despite their differences on many issues, ask causal questions about the world. In this anthology, Andrew P. Vayda and Bradley B. Walters set forth strategy and methods to answer those questions. The selected readings, all illuminating causal explanation for social scientists,...
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Lanham, Md. :
AltaMira Press,
2011.
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书本目录:
- 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.