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Hunting Causes and Using them : Approaches in Philosophy and Economics
Publication details: Cambridge Cambridge University Press 2007Description: 270p ixISBN:- 9780521677981
- 122.200000 CAR
Contents:
Table of Contents Introduction Part I. Plurality in Causality: 1. Preamble 2. Causation: one word, many things 3. Causes: warranting them and using them 4. Where is the theory in our 'theories' of causality? Part II. Case Studies: Bayes-nets and Invariance Theories: 5. Preamble 6. What is wrong with Bayes-nets? 7. Modularity: it can - and generally does – fail 8. Against modularity, the causal Markov condition and any link between the two: comments on Hausman and Woodward 9. From metaphysics to method: comments on manipulability and the causal Markov condition 10. Two theorems on invariance and causality Part III. Causal Theories in Economics: 11. Preamble 12. Probabilities and experiments 13. How to get causes from probabilities: Cartwright on Simon on causation 14. The merger of cause and strategy: Hoover on Simon on causation 15. The vanity of rigour in economics: theoretical models and Galilean experiments 16. Counterfactuals in economics: a commentary. Bibliography. Index
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Table of Contents Introduction Part I. Plurality in Causality: 1. Preamble 2. Causation: one word, many things 3. Causes: warranting them and using them 4. Where is the theory in our 'theories' of causality? Part II. Case Studies: Bayes-nets and Invariance Theories: 5. Preamble 6. What is wrong with Bayes-nets? 7. Modularity: it can - and generally does – fail 8. Against modularity, the causal Markov condition and any link between the two: comments on Hausman and Woodward 9. From metaphysics to method: comments on manipulability and the causal Markov condition 10. Two theorems on invariance and causality Part III. Causal Theories in Economics: 11. Preamble 12. Probabilities and experiments 13. How to get causes from probabilities: Cartwright on Simon on causation 14. The merger of cause and strategy: Hoover on Simon on causation 15. The vanity of rigour in economics: theoretical models and Galilean experiments 16. Counterfactuals in economics: a commentary. Bibliography. Index