Causation in International Relations - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Causation in International Relations write by Milja Kurki. This book was released on 2008-04-03. Causation in International Relations available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. World political processes, such as wars and globalisation, are engendered by complex sets of causes and conditions. Although the idea of causation is fundamental to the field of International Relations, what the concept of cause means or entails has remained an unresolved and contested matter. In recent decades ferocious debates have surrounded the idea of causal analysis, some scholars even questioning the legitimacy of applying the notion of cause in the study of International Relations. This book suggests that underlying the debates on causation in the field of International Relations is a set of problematic assumptions (deterministic, mechanistic and empiricist) and that we should reclaim causal analysis from the dominant discourse of causation. Milja Kurki argues that reinterpreting the meaning, aims and methods of social scientific causal analysis opens up multi-causal and methodologically pluralist avenues for future International Relations scholarship.
Constructing Cause in International Relations
Constructing Cause in International Relations - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Constructing Cause in International Relations write by Richard Ned Lebow. This book was released on 2014-02-20. Constructing Cause in International Relations available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A novel approach to cause that builds on human reasons for acting and the consequences of behaviour by multiple actors.
The Oxford Handbook of Causation
The Oxford Handbook of Causation - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Oxford Handbook of Causation write by Helen Beebee. This book was released on 2012-01-12. The Oxford Handbook of Causation available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Causation is a central topic in many areas of philosophy. In metaphysics, philosophers want to know what causation is, and how it is related to laws of nature, probability, action, and freedom of the will. In epistemology, philosophers investigate how causal claims can be inferred from statistical data, and how causation is related to perception, knowledge and explanation. In the philosophy of mind, philosophers want to know whether and how the mind can be said to have causal efficacy, and in ethics, whether there is a moral distinction between acts and omissions and whether the moral value of an act can be judged according to its consequences. And causation is a contested concept in other fields of enquiry, such as biology, physics, and the law. This book provides an in-depth and comprehensive overview of these and other topics, as well as the history of the causation debate from the ancient Greeks to the logical empiricists. The chapters provide surveys of contemporary debates, while often also advancing novel and controversial claims; and each includes a comprehensive bibliography and suggestions for further reading. The book is thus the most comprehensive source of information about causation currently available, and will be invaluable for upper-level undergraduates through to professional philosophers.
Experimental Political Science and the Study of Causality
Experimental Political Science and the Study of Causality - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Experimental Political Science and the Study of Causality write by Rebecca B. Morton. This book was released on 2010-08-06. Experimental Political Science and the Study of Causality available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Increasingly, political scientists use the term 'experiment' or 'experimental' to describe their empirical research. One of the primary reasons for doing so is the advantage of experiments in establishing causal inferences. In this book, Rebecca B. Morton and Kenneth C. Williams discuss in detail how experiments and experimental reasoning with observational data can help researchers determine causality. They explore how control and random assignment mechanisms work, examining both the Rubin causal model and the formal theory approaches to causality. They also cover general topics in experimentation such as the history of experimentation in political science; internal and external validity of experimental research; types of experiments - field, laboratory, virtual, and survey - and how to choose, recruit, and motivate subjects in experiments. They investigate ethical issues in experimentation, the process of securing approval from institutional review boards for human subject research, and the use of deception in experimentation.
The Facts of Causation
The Facts of Causation - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Facts of Causation write by D.H. Mellor. This book was released on 2002-09-11. The Facts of Causation available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Everything we do relies on causation. We eat and drink because this causes us to stay alive. Courts tell us who causes crimes, criminology tell us what causes people to commit them. D.H. Mellor shows us that to understand the world and our lives we must understand causation. The Facts of Causation, now available in paperback, is essential reading for students and for anyone interested in reading one of the ground-breaking theories in metaphysics. We cannot understand the world and our place in it without understanding causation. Yet a complete account of the nature and implications of causation does not exist. D.H Mellor's new book is that account.
