Causation in Science and the Methods of Scientific Discovery by Anjum, Rani Lill

Causation in Science and the Methods of Scientific Discovery (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780198733669)

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Causation in Science and the Methods of Scientific Discovery by Anjum, Rani Lill

Causation in Science and the Methods of Scientific Discovery

$89.00
Causation in Science and the Methods of Scientific Discovery by Anjum, Rani Lill

Causation in Science and the Methods of Scientific Discovery

$89.00
Format: Hardcover
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Some of the chief goals of science - understanding, explanation, prediction, and application in new technologies - can only be conducted with any purpose if the world has some significant degree of constancy in what follows from what. While causal questions are relevant to all sciences and social sciences, how we discover causal connections is no easy matter. What is the source of such predictability and how does it operate? This is a question that goes beyond science itself and requires a philosophical approach. Causation is the main foundation upon which the possibility of science rests, but what methods should we adopt in order to identify causes in science? Causation often lies hidden and, as we must work to uncover it, it is vital we adopt the right methods in science for doing so and that we have a good philosophical understanding of what causation is. The choice of methods will inevitably reflect what one takes causation to be, making an accurate account of causation an even more pressing matter, as the enquiry concerns the correct norms for the empirical study of the world. In Causation in Science and the Methods of Scientific Discovery, Rani Lill Anjum and Stephen Mumford propose nine new norms of scientific discovery, recognising that some of the greatest challenges that we face can only be solved if we understand what has caused the problem and what, if anything, could then cause its alleviation.

Author: Rani Lill Anjum, Stephen Mumford
ISBN-10: 0198733666
ISBN-13: 9780198733669
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Language: English
Published: 12/18/2018
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.30lbs
Size: 9.30h x 6.20w x 1.00d

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By Rani Lill Anjum
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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).

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