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Causal explanation for social scientists: a reader/ edited by Andrew P. Vayda and Bradley B. Walters

Contributor(s): Andrew P. Vayda | Bradley B. WaltersMaterial type: Text

TextPublication details: Lanham: AltaMira Press, 2011Description: xvi, 320pISBN: 9780759113268Subject(s): Causation | Social sciences--Research--PhilosophyDDC classification: 300.1

Contents:

Introduction : pragmatic methods and causal-history explanations / Andrew P. Vayda and Bradley B. Walters -- Causal explanation / David Lewis -- The notion of witchcraft explains unfortunate events / E.E. Evans-Pritchard -- Geertz and the interpretive approach in anthropology / Michael Martin -- The range and power of narrative style in science / Stephen Jay Gould -- Famines / Amartya Sen -- Analysis or reductionism? / Ernst Mayr -- The role of fact in the particular and the general / R.C. Lewontin -- Explanatory relativity / Alan Garfinkel -- Homage to Clio, or, toward an historical philosophy for evolutionary biology / Robert J. O'Hara -- Plague and fertility in early modern Europe / Geoffrey Hawthorn -- Thermostats, lemons, and other families of models / Thomas C. Schelling -- Rice harvesting : a view from the theory of common property / N.H. Sturgess and Hesti R. Wijaya -- Statistical models and shoe leather / David A. Freedman -- The method of multiple working hypotheses / T.C. Chamberlin -- Confirmation bias : a ubiquitous phenomenon in many guises / Raymond S. Nickerson -- The last northern cod / Thomas R. McGuire -- The body of the detective model : Charles S. Peirce and Edgar Allan Poe / Nancy Harrowitz -- Thinking and reasoning in medicine / Vimla L. Patel, Jose F. Arocha, and Jiajie Zhang -- On types of scientific inquiry : the role of qualitative reasoning / David A. Freedman -- Counterfactuals and revisionism in historical explanation / Ross Hassig -- The obsessional search for meaning / Jon Elster -- Confirmation bias in consequence explanations / Andrew P. Vayda -- Dos and don'ts in interdisciplinary research on causes of fires in tropical moist forests : examples from Indonesia / Andrew P. Vayda -- Critical regions, ecosystem management, and human ecosystem research / Thomas K. Rudel.

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Item type	Current library	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode	Item holds
General Books	Central Library, Sikkim University General Book Section	300.1 VAY/C (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		P18042

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Introduction : pragmatic methods and causal-history explanations / Andrew P. Vayda and Bradley B. Walters --
Causal explanation / David Lewis --
The notion of witchcraft explains unfortunate events / E.E. Evans-Pritchard --
Geertz and the interpretive approach in anthropology / Michael Martin --
The range and power of narrative style in science / Stephen Jay Gould --
Famines / Amartya Sen --
Analysis or reductionism? / Ernst Mayr --
The role of fact in the particular and the general / R.C. Lewontin --
Explanatory relativity / Alan Garfinkel --
Homage to Clio, or, toward an historical philosophy for evolutionary biology / Robert J. O'Hara --
Plague and fertility in early modern Europe / Geoffrey Hawthorn --
Thermostats, lemons, and other families of models / Thomas C. Schelling --
Rice harvesting : a view from the theory of common property / N.H. Sturgess and Hesti R. Wijaya --
Statistical models and shoe leather / David A. Freedman --
The method of multiple working hypotheses / T.C. Chamberlin --
Confirmation bias : a ubiquitous phenomenon in many guises / Raymond S. Nickerson --
The last northern cod / Thomas R. McGuire --
The body of the detective model : Charles S. Peirce and Edgar Allan Poe / Nancy Harrowitz --
Thinking and reasoning in medicine / Vimla L. Patel, Jose F. Arocha, and Jiajie Zhang --
On types of scientific inquiry : the role of qualitative reasoning / David A. Freedman --
Counterfactuals and revisionism in historical explanation / Ross Hassig --
The obsessional search for meaning / Jon Elster --
Confirmation bias in consequence explanations / Andrew P. Vayda --
Dos and don'ts in interdisciplinary research on causes of fires in tropical moist forests : examples from Indonesia / Andrew P. Vayda --
Critical regions, ecosystem management, and human ecosystem research / Thomas K. Rudel.

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