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All social scientists, despite their differences on many issues, ask causal questions about the world. In this anthology, Andrew P. Vayda and Bradley B. Walters set forth strategy and methods to answer those questions. The selected readings, all illuminating causal explanation for social scientists, are not only by anthropologists, sociologists, economists, and human ecologists but also by philosophers, biologists, psychologists, historians, and specialists in other fields. The essays will appeal to those doing applied research on practical problems as well as those seeking mainly to satisfy their curiosity about the causes of whatever events or types of events interest them.

Table of Contents:
Introductory Essay: Pragmatic Methods and Causal-History Explanations by Andrew P. Vayda and Bradley B. Walters Part I. A Pragmatic View of Causal Explanation Chapter 1. Causal Explanation by David Lewis Chapter 2. The Notion of Witchcraft Explains Unfortunate Events by E. E. Evans-Pritchard Chapter 3. Geertz and the Interpretive Approach in Anthropology by Michael Martin Part II. Causal Histories of Events Chapter 4. The Range and Power of Narrative Style in Science by Stephen Jay Gould Chapter 5. Famines by Amartya Sen Chapter 6. Analysis or Reductionism? by Ernst Mayr Chapter 7. The Role of Fact in the Particular and the General by Richard C. Lewontin Chapter 8. Explanatory Relativity by Alan Garfinkel Part III. "How-Possibly" Explanations Chapter 9. Homage to Clio, or Toward an Historical Philosophy for Evolutionary Biology by Robert J. O'Hara Part IV. Systems and Structures Chapter 10. Plague and Fertility in Early Modern Europe by Geoffrey Hawthorn Part V. Theories, Generalizations, and Practical Judgments Chapter 11. Thermostats, Lemons, and Other Families of Models by Thomas C. Schelling Chapter 12. Rice Harvesting: A View from the Theory of Common Property by Neil H. Sturgess and Hesti Wijaya Part VI. Causal Reasoning: Forms, Results, and Caveats Chapter 13. Statistical Models and Shoe Leather by David A. Freedman Chapter 14. The Method of Multiple Working Hypotheses by T.C. Chamberlin Chapter 15. Confirmation Biase: A Ubiquitous Phenomenon in Many Guises by Raymond S. Nickerson Chapter 16. The Last Northern Cod by Thomas R. McGuire Chapter 17. The Body of the Detective Model: Charles S. Peirce and Edgar Allan Poe by Nancy Harrowitz Chapter 18. Thinking and Reasoning in Medicine by Vimla L. Patel, Jose F. Arocha, and Jiajie Zhang Chapter 19. On Types of Scientific Inquiry: The Role of Qualitative Reasoning by David A. Freedman Chapter 20. Counterfactuals and Revisionism in Historical Explanation by Ross Hassig Part VII. Consequence Explanations and their Misuse Chapter 21. The Obsessional Search for Meaning by Jon Elster Chapter 22. Confirmation Bias in Consequence Explanations by Andrew P. Vayda Part VIII. Dos and Don'ts in Interdisciplinary Research on Causes of Events Chapter 23. Dos and Don'ts in Interdisciplinary Research on Causes of Fires in Tropical Moist Forests: Examples from Indonesia by Andrew P. Vayda Chapter 24. Critical Regions, Ecosystem Management, and Human Ecosystem Research by Thomas K. Rudel Index


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780759113251
  • Publisher: Altamira Press
  • Publisher Imprint: Altamira Press
  • Height: 245 mm
  • No of Pages: 336
  • Spine Width: 24 mm
  • Weight: 698 gr
  • ISBN-10: 0759113254
  • Publisher Date: 16 Feb 2011
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: Y
  • Sub Title: A Reader
  • Width: 168 mm

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