Causation in Science and the Methods of Scientific Discovery

Anjum, Rani Lill & Stephen Mumford

ISBN 10: 0198733666 / ISBN 13: 9780198733669

Published by Oxford University Press, 2018

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23.4 X 15.6 X 1.75 centimeters; 304 pages.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Causation in Science and the Methods of Scientific Discovery
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Publication Date: 2018
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0198733666
• ISBN 13: 9780198733669
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: First Edition.
• Condition: Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Fine

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Synopsis

Causal questions are relevant to all sciences and social sciences, yet how we discover causal connections is no easy matter. Indeed, the choice of methods concerns the correct norms for the empirical study of the world. In this text, two experts on causation relate philosophical theory to scientific practice and propose nine new norms of discovery.

About the Author

Rani Lill Anjum is a Researcher of Philosophy at the Norwegian University of Life Sciences (NMBU), working on the relationship between the philosophy of causation and scientific methods. Her PhD is on the logic of conditionals. During her Postdoc at Tromsoe and Nottingham, she wrote the book Getting Causes from Powers (Oxford 2011) with Stephen Mumford, developing a new dispositional theory of causation. As a result of her research project at NMBU, 'Causation in Science', they also co-wrote Causation: A Very Short Introduction (Oxford 2013). Her current research project is 'Causation, Complexity and Evidence in Health Sciences' (CauseHealth).

Stephen Mumford is Professor of Metaphysics in the Department of Philosophy at Durham University as well as Professor II at Norwegian University of Life Sciences (NMBU). He is the author of Dispositions (Oxford 1998), Russell on Metaphysics (Routledge 2003), Laws in Nature (Routledge 2004), David Armstrong (Acumen 2007), Watching Sport: Aesthetics, Ethics and Emotion (Routledge 2011), Getting Causes from Powers (Oxford 2011, with Rani Lill Anjum), Metaphysics: A Very Short Introduction (Oxford 2012) and Causation: a Very Short Introduction (Oxford 2013, with Rani Lill Anjum).