Revitalizing Causality: Realism about Causality in Philosophy and Social ScienceRuth Groff Routledge, 18. dets 2007 - 288 pages 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. A unique collection, it offers the reader various disciplinary and inter-disciplinary divides, helping to stake out a new, neo-Aristotelian position within contemporary debate. |
Contents
Essence and accident 45 | |
Conceptual and natural necessity 56 | |
Powers and dispositions 76 | |
Realism about causality in philosophy 93 | |
Aristotelian powers 129 | |
powers without essences 152 | |
Causal exclusion and evolved emergent properties 163 | |
Are there natural kinds in psychology? 179 | |
Realism about causality in social science 193 | |
organizing political science around causal | |
Marxian crisis theory and causality 220 | |
social kinds and | |
Index 261 | |
Powers dispositions properties or a causal realist manifesto 139 | |
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Revitalizing Causality: Realism about Causality in Philosophy and Social Science Ruth Groff No preview available - 2009 |
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abstract active Albritton analysis argue argument Aristotelian Aristotle Aristotle’s atomic basic behaviour belief Bhaskar biological Brian Ellis capital capital’s capitalist categorial meanings causal laws causal mechanisms causal powers causal processes causally efficacious causes characteristics Christopher Norris claim cluster kinds cognition commodity concept context crises critical realism Davidson dispositional properties distinction economic effect emergent properties empirical empiricism Engelskirchen entities epistemology essence kinds essential properties essentialist example existence fact fragility human Hume Humean idea identical intrinsic knowledge labor laws of nature logical Marx Marx’s mental metaphysical multiple realisation natural kinds natural necessity nominal essence object ontological Oxford philosophy of science physical political possible predicates problem production psychological Putnam Quine Quine’s real essences realism about causality reason reference relations Roy Bhaskar scientific Scientific Realism sense social form social sciences specific Stephen Mumford substance supervenience surplus value teleological theory things thought truth