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Making things happen : a theory of causal explanation.
Woodward's volume is an attempt to construct a comprehensive account of causation explanation that applies to a wide variety of causal and explanatory claims in different areas of science and everyday life.
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Oxford University Press,
2004.
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| Series: | Oxford studies in the philosophy of science.
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| 505 | 0 | |a 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. | |
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