Yafeng Shan

Gebundenes Buch

Alternative Approaches to Causation

Beyond Difference-Making and Mechanism

Beschreibung

This volume focuses on alternatives to the two main philosophical approaches to causation: mechanistic explanation, and explanation in terms of difference-making. It explores the pluralistic, the fictionalist, the inferentialist, and the informational approaches, as well as the application of various approaches to natural and social sciences.

Autor

Yafeng Shan is Assistant Professor of Philosophy of Science at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. He completed his PhD at University College London. His books include Doing Integrated History and Philosophy of Science: A Case Study of the Origin of Genetics (Springer, 2020), New Philosophical Perspectives on Scientific Progress (Routledge, 2022), Examining Philosophy Itself (Wiley, 2023), and Evidential Pluralism in the Social Sciences (Routledge, 2023).

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. Mai 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 224mm x 160mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 635g
• ISBN-13: 9780192863485
• ISBN-10: 0192863487
• Artikelnr.: 69723370