
Making Things Happen : A Theory of Causal Explanation
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Description
analyze causation by appeal to the notion of manipulation.
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Product details
- Paperback | 432 pages
- 153 x 230 x 25mm | 618g
- 27 Oct 2005
- Oxford University Press Inc
- New York, United States
- English
- black & white illustrations
- 0195189531
- 9780195189537
- 527,996
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Table of contents
2: Causation and Manipulation
3: Interventions, Agency, and Counterfactuals
4: Causal Explanation: Background and Criticism
5: A Counterfactual Theory of Causal Explanation
6: Invariance
7: Causal Interpretation in Structural Models
8: The Causal Mechanical and Unificationist Models of Explanation
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