EVIDENTIAL PLURALISM IN THE SOCIAL SCIENCES.

EVIDENTIAL PLURALISM IN THE SOCIAL SCIENCES.

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Author / Creator:Shan, Yafeng.
Imprint:ABINGDON : ROUTLEDGE, 2023.
Description:1 online resource
Language:English
Subject:
Social sciences -- Research -- Methodology.
Social sciences -- Research -- Methodology
Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/14125580
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Other authors / contributors:Williamson, Jon.
ISBN:1003143008
9781003143000
9781000890365
1000890368
1000890392
9781000890396
Notes:Yafeng Shan is Assistant Professor of Philosophy of Science at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. He is the author of Doing Integrated History and Philosophy of Science: A Case Study of the Origin of Genetics and the editor of New Philosophical Perspectives on Scientific Progress. Jon Williamson is Professor of Reasoning, Inference, and Scientific Method at the University of Kent, UK. His books include Evaluating Evidence of Mechanisms in Medicine, Lectures on Inductive Logic, Probabilistic Logics and Probabilistic Networks, In Defence of Objective Bayesianism and Bayesian Nets and Causality.
Summary:This volume contends that Evidential Pluralism--an account of the epistemology of causation, which maintains that in order to establish a causal claim one needs to establish the existence of a correlation and the existence of a mechanism--can be fruitfully applied to the social sciences. Through case studies in sociology, economics, political science and law, it advances new philosophical foundations for causal enquiry in the social sciences. The book provides an account of how to establish and evaluate causal claims and it offers a new way of thinking about evidence-based policy, basic social science research and mixed methods research. As such, it will appeal to scholars with interests in social science research and methodology, the philosophy of science and evidence-based policy.
Standard no.:10.4324/9781003143000

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