02926cam a2200301 a 4500 16566771 BD-DhUL 20161120125853.0 101203s2011 mdu b 001 0 eng 2010049372 9780759113251 (cloth : alk. paper) 9780759113268 (pbk. : alk. paper) DLC DLC DLC BD-DhUL H62 .C34465 2011 300.1 22 Causal explanation for social scientists : a reader / edited by Andrew P. Vayda and Bradley B. Walters. Lanham : AltaMira Press, a division of Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, c2011. xvi, 320 p. ; 25 cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. 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. Social sciences Research Philosophy. Causation. Vayda, Andrew Peter. Walters, Bradley B. 7 cbc orignew 1 ecip 20 y-gencatlg ddc BK xj10 2010-12-03 xj10 2010-12-03 telework to DEWEY xe05 2012-09-27 2 copies rec'd., to CIP ver. 125928 125928