Revitalizing Causality: Realism about Causality in Philosophy and Social Science

ISBN-13: 9780415568715 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 266 str.

Ruth Groff

Opis

This cutting-edge collection of new and previously published articles by philosophers and social scientists addresses just what it means to invoke causal mechanisms, or powers, in the context of offering a causal explanation.

Spis treści

Part I – Key Formulations  1. Critical Realism and Substance  2. Causality and Substance  3. Essence and Accident  4. Conceptual and Natural Necessity  5. Powers and Dispositions  Part II – Realism About Causality in Philosophy  6. Meaning, Truth and Causal Explanation: The ‘Humean Condition’ Revisited  7. Aristotelian Powers  8.  Powers, Dispositions, Properties  9. Inessential Aristotle: Powers Without Essences  10. Causal Exclusion and Evolved Emergent Properties  11. Are There Natural Kinds in Psychology?  Part III – Realism About Causality in Social Science  12. Sociology’s Causal Confusion  13. The Mother of All Isms: Causal Mechanisms in Political Science  14. Marxisn Crisis Theory and Causality  15. On the Clear Comprehension of Political Economy: Social Kinds and the Significance of Section 2 of Marx's Capital 

O autorze

Ruth Groff