Revitalizing causality : realism about causality in philosophy and social science /
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| Imprint: | London ; New York : Routledge, 2008. |
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| Description: | xiv, 265 p. ; 24 cm. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Routledge studies in critical realism ; 18 |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/7590455 |
Table of Contents:
- List of contributors
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction: realism about causality
- Part I. Key formulations
- 1. Critical realism and substance
- 2. Causality and substance
- 3. Essence and accident
- 4. Conceptual and natural necessity
- 5. Powers and dispositions
- Part II. Realism about causality in philosophy
- 6. Meaning, truth, and causal explanation: the 'Humean condition' revisited
- 7. Aristotelian powers
- 8. Powers, dispositions, properties or a causal realist manifesto
- 9. Inessential Aristotle: powers without essences
- 10. Causal exclusion and evolved emergent properties
- 11. Are there natural kinds in psychology?
- Part III. Realism about causality in social science
- 12. Sociology's causal confusion
- 13. The mother of all "isms": organizing political science around causal mechanisms
- 14. Marxian crisis theory and causality
- 15. On the clear comprehension of political economy: social kinds and the significance of Section 2 of Marx's Capital
- Index