02926cam a2200301 a 450000100090000000300080000900500170001700800410003401000170007502000390009202000380013104000270016905000220019608200140021824501100023226000850034230000260042750400510045350518360050465000430234065000150238370000250239870000240242390600450244794200120249295501010250499900190260516566771BD-DhUL20161120125853.0101203s2011    mdu      b    001 0 eng    a  2010049372  a9780759113251 (cloth : alk. paper)  a9780759113268 (pbk. : alk. paper)  aDLCcDLCdDLCdBD-DhUL00aH62b.C34465 201100a300.122200aCausal explanation for social scientists :ba reader /cedited by Andrew P. Vayda and Bradley B. Walters.  aLanham :bAltaMira Press, a division of Rowman & Littlefield Publishers,cc2011.  axvi, 320 p. ;c25 cm.  aIncludes bibliographical references and index.0 aIntroduction : 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. 0aSocial sciencesxResearchxPhilosophy. 0aCausation.1 aVayda, Andrew Peter.1 aWalters, Bradley B.  a7bcbccorignewd1eecipf20gy-gencatlg  2ddccBK  bxj10 2010-12-03ixj10 2010-12-03 telework to DEWEYaxe05 2012-09-27 2 copies rec'd., to CIP ver.  c125928d125928