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- catalog abstract ""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.".
- catalog contributor b13058520.
- catalog created "2003.".
- catalog date "2003".
- catalog date "2003.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "2003.".
- catalog description ""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.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references and index.".
- catalog description "Introduction and preview -- Causation and manipulation -- Interventions, agency, and counterfactuals -- Causal explanation: background and criticism -- A counterfactual theory of causal explanation -- Invariance -- Causal interpretation in structural models -- The causal mechanical and unificationist models of explanation -- Afterword.".
- catalog extent "vi, 410 p. ;".
- catalog identifier "0195155270".
- catalog issued "2003".
- catalog issued "2003.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "New York : Oxford University Press,".
- catalog subject "122 21".
- catalog subject "BD541 .W64 2003".
- catalog subject "Causation.".
- catalog subject "Explanation.".
- catalog subject "Science Philosophy.".
- catalog tableOfContents "Introduction and preview -- Causation and manipulation -- Interventions, agency, and counterfactuals -- Causal explanation: background and criticism -- A counterfactual theory of causal explanation -- Invariance -- Causal interpretation in structural models -- The causal mechanical and unificationist models of explanation -- Afterword.".
- catalog title "Making things happen : a theory of causal explanation / James Woodward.".
- catalog type "text".