Making Things Happen A Theory of Causal Explanation
| Author/creator | Woodward, James Author |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | New York : Oxford University Press, Incorporated |
| Description | 432 p. 06.100 x 09.100 in. |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from Ebook Central - Academic Complete |
| Subjects |
| Series | Oxford Studies in the Philosophy of Science Ser. |
| Summary | Annotation "In Making Things Happen, James Woodward develops a comprehensive theory of causation and explanation that draws on literature from a variety of disciplines and which applies to a wide variety of claims in science and everyday life. His theory is a manipulationist account, proposing that causal and explanatory relationships are relationships that are potentially exploitable for purposes of manipulation and control. This account has its roots in the commonsense idea that causes are means for bringing about effects; but it also draws on a long tradition of work in experimental design, econometrics, and statistics. Woodward shows how these ideas may be generalized to other areas of science from the social scientific and biomedical contexts for which they were originally designed. He also provides philosophical foundations for the manipulationist approach, drawing out its implications, comparing it with alternative approaches, and defending it from common criticisms. In doing so, he shows how the manipulationist account both illuminates important features of successful causal explanation in the natural and social sciences and avoids the counterexamples and difficulties that infect alternative approaches, from the deductive-nomological model onward."--BOOK JACKET. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2002192596 |
| ISBN | 9780195189537 |
| ISBN | 0195189531 (Trade Paper) Active Record |
| Standard identifier# | 9780195189537 |
| Stock number | 00020142 |
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| Electronic Resources | Access Content Online | ✔ Available |