Causal explanation for social scientists : (Record no. 125928)
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| fixed length control field | 101203s2011 mdu b 001 0 eng |
| 010 ## - LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CONTROL NUMBER | |
| LC control number | 2010049372 |
| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER | |
| International Standard Book Number | 9780759113251 (cloth : alk. paper) |
| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER | |
| International Standard Book Number | 9780759113268 (pbk. : alk. paper) |
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| Original cataloging agency | DLC |
| Transcribing agency | DLC |
| Modifying agency | DLC |
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| Classification number | H62 |
| Item number | .C34465 2011 |
| 082 00 - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER | |
| Classification number | 300.1 |
| Edition number | 22 |
| 245 00 - TITLE STATEMENT | |
| Title | Causal explanation for social scientists : |
| Remainder of title | 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, a division of Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, |
| Date of publication, distribution, etc. | c2011. |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
| Extent | xvi, 320 p. ; |
| Dimensions | 25 cm. |
| 504 ## - BIBLIOGRAPHY, ETC. NOTE | |
| Bibliography, etc | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| 505 0# - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE | |
| Formatted contents note | 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. |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical term or geographic name as entry element | Social sciences |
| General subdivision | Research |
| -- | Philosophy. |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical term or geographic name as entry element | Causation. |
| 700 1# - ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Vayda, Andrew Peter. |
| 700 1# - ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Walters, Bradley B. |
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