Causal explanation for social scientists: a reader/ (Record no. 163132)
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| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER | |
| International Standard Book Number | 9780759113268 |
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| Transcribing agency | CUS |
| 082 ## - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER | |
| Classification number | 300.1 |
| Item number | VAY/C |
| 245 #0 - TITLE STATEMENT | |
| Title | Causal explanation for social scientists: a reader/ |
| Statement of responsibility, etc. | edited by Andrew P. Vayda and Bradley B. Walters |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT) | |
| Place of publication, distribution, etc. | Lanham: |
| Name of publisher, distributor, etc. | AltaMira Press, |
| Date of publication, distribution, etc. | 2011. |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
| Extent | xvi, 320p. |
| 505 ## - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE | |
| Formatted contents note | Introduction : pragmatic methods and causal-history explanations / Andrew P. Vayda and Bradley B. Walters --<br/>Causal explanation / David Lewis --<br/>The notion of witchcraft explains unfortunate events / E.E. Evans-Pritchard --<br/>Geertz and the interpretive approach in anthropology / Michael Martin --<br/>The range and power of narrative style in science / Stephen Jay Gould --<br/>Famines / Amartya Sen --<br/>Analysis or reductionism? / Ernst Mayr --<br/>The role of fact in the particular and the general / R.C. Lewontin --<br/>Explanatory relativity / Alan Garfinkel --<br/>Homage to Clio, or, toward an historical philosophy for evolutionary biology / Robert J. O'Hara --<br/>Plague and fertility in early modern Europe / Geoffrey Hawthorn --<br/>Thermostats, lemons, and other families of models / Thomas C. Schelling --<br/>Rice harvesting : a view from the theory of common property / N.H. Sturgess and Hesti R. Wijaya --<br/>Statistical models and shoe leather / David A. Freedman --<br/>The method of multiple working hypotheses / T.C. Chamberlin --<br/>Confirmation bias : a ubiquitous phenomenon in many guises / Raymond S. Nickerson --<br/>The last northern cod / Thomas R. McGuire --<br/>The body of the detective model : Charles S. Peirce and Edgar Allan Poe / Nancy Harrowitz --<br/>Thinking and reasoning in medicine / Vimla L. Patel, Jose F. Arocha, and Jiajie Zhang --<br/>On types of scientific inquiry : the role of qualitative reasoning / David A. Freedman --<br/>Counterfactuals and revisionism in historical explanation / Ross Hassig --<br/>The obsessional search for meaning / Jon Elster --<br/>Confirmation bias in consequence explanations / Andrew P. Vayda --<br/>Dos and don'ts in interdisciplinary research on causes of fires in tropical moist forests : examples from Indonesia / Andrew P. Vayda --<br/>Critical regions, ecosystem management, and human ecosystem research / Thomas K. Rudel. |
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| Keyword | Causation |
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| Keyword | Social sciences--Research--Philosophy |
| 700 ## - ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Andrew P. Vayda |
| 700 ## - ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Bradley B. Walters |
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| Koha item type | General Books |
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| Central Library, Sikkim University | Central Library, Sikkim University | General Book Section | 29/08/2016 | 300.1 VAY/C | P18042 | 14/07/2018 | 14/07/2018 | General Books |