A Primer to Causal Reasoning About a Complex World
This open access book is about causal thinking and the use of causal language, with a focus on introducing philosophical ideas about causation to students and researchers of Social-Ecological Systems (SES). It takes a systematic approach to three central topics: the meanings of different causal expr...
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| author | Johansson, Lars-Göran Banitz, Thomas Grimm, Volker Hertz, Tilman Lindkvist, Emilie Martínez Peña, Rodrigo Radosavljevic, Sonja Ylikoski, Petri Schlüter, Maja |
| author_browse | Banitz, Thomas Grimm, Volker Hertz, Tilman Johansson, Lars-Göran Lindkvist, Emilie Martínez Peña, Rodrigo Radosavljevic, Sonja Schlüter, Maja Ylikoski, Petri |
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| description | This open access book is about causal thinking and the use of causal language, with a focus on introducing philosophical ideas about causation to students and researchers of Social-Ecological Systems (SES). It takes a systematic approach to three central topics: the meanings of different causal expressions, sufficiency of evidence for inferences from observations to causal relations, and how to handle the complexity of causal relations in social-ecological systems. Consequently, the book is divided into three parts. In the first part the authors analyse and discuss the use of causal idiom in ordinary language, and in the second part they scrutinise the use of causal concepts and causal inference in science. Finally, the authors discuss causal reasoning about social-ecological systems in multi- and interdisciplinary contexts. This book provides an analysis of the concept of causation useful in the empirical sciences, where causal notions and idioms often are used without sufficient reflection. Empirical sciences often use causal idiom drawn from ordinary language, and similarly there is little formalisation of causal language and technical concepts in the humanities and social sciences. This book is a valuable resource for the application of current philosophical discussions about the concept of causation, in particular when applied to the analysis of social-ecological systems, but also when applied to research in the sciences and humanities. |
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| spelling | doab-20.500.12854ir-1424942024-07-23T15:51:40Z A Primer to Causal Reasoning About a Complex World Johansson, Lars-Göran Banitz, Thomas Grimm, Volker Hertz, Tilman Lindkvist, Emilie Martínez Peña, Rodrigo Radosavljevic, Sonja Ylikoski, Petri Schlüter, Maja social-ecological systems causation in complex systems causal mechanisms directed graphs and structural equations causal relations manipulability and intervention causal and non-causal explanation INUS-conditions statistics and causation combining approaches to causal analysis thema EDItEUR::P Mathematics and Science::PD Science: general issues::PDA Philosophy of science thema EDItEUR::R Earth Sciences, Geography, Environment, Planning::RN The environment::RNU Sustainability thema EDItEUR::P Mathematics and Science::PS Biology, life sciences::PSA Life sciences: general issues::PSAF Ecological science, the Biosphere This open access book is about causal thinking and the use of causal language, with a focus on introducing philosophical ideas about causation to students and researchers of Social-Ecological Systems (SES). It takes a systematic approach to three central topics: the meanings of different causal expressions, sufficiency of evidence for inferences from observations to causal relations, and how to handle the complexity of causal relations in social-ecological systems. Consequently, the book is divided into three parts. In the first part the authors analyse and discuss the use of causal idiom in ordinary language, and in the second part they scrutinise the use of causal concepts and causal inference in science. Finally, the authors discuss causal reasoning about social-ecological systems in multi- and interdisciplinary contexts. This book provides an analysis of the concept of causation useful in the empirical sciences, where causal notions and idioms often are used without sufficient reflection. Empirical sciences often use causal idiom drawn from ordinary language, and similarly there is little formalisation of causal language and technical concepts in the humanities and social sciences. This book is a valuable resource for the application of current philosophical discussions about the concept of causation, in particular when applied to the analysis of social-ecological systems, but also when applied to research in the sciences and humanities. 2024-07-23T15:51:38Z 2024-07-23T15:51:38Z 2024-07-16T18:51:06Z 2024 book ONIX_20240716_9783031591358_18 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/92321 9783031591358 9783031591341 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/142494 eng SpringerBriefs in Philosophy open access image/jpeg n/a https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/92321/1/978-3-031-59135-8.pdf Springer Nature Springer Nature Switzerland 10.1007/978-3-031-59135-8 10.1007/978-3-031-59135-8 9fa3421d-f917-4153-b9ab-fc337c396b5a 92c935d0-3406-4fa7-ac30-7695f9e409fa b86489d9-6e9f-40f3-ab85-3d7c0f7896fa 9783031591358 9783031591341 Springer Nature Switzerland 150 Cham [...] Stockholms Universitet Stockholm University 10.13039/501100009244 open access |
| spellingShingle | social-ecological systems causation in complex systems causal mechanisms directed graphs and structural equations causal relations manipulability and intervention causal and non-causal explanation INUS-conditions statistics and causation combining approaches to causal analysis thema EDItEUR::P Mathematics and Science::PD Science: general issues::PDA Philosophy of science thema EDItEUR::R Earth Sciences, Geography, Environment, Planning::RN The environment::RNU Sustainability thema EDItEUR::P Mathematics and Science::PS Biology, life sciences::PSA Life sciences: general issues::PSAF Ecological science, the Biosphere Johansson, Lars-Göran Banitz, Thomas Grimm, Volker Hertz, Tilman Lindkvist, Emilie Martínez Peña, Rodrigo Radosavljevic, Sonja Ylikoski, Petri Schlüter, Maja A Primer to Causal Reasoning About a Complex World |
| title | A Primer to Causal Reasoning About a Complex World |
| title_full | A Primer to Causal Reasoning About a Complex World |
| title_fullStr | A Primer to Causal Reasoning About a Complex World |
| title_full_unstemmed | A Primer to Causal Reasoning About a Complex World |
| title_short | A Primer to Causal Reasoning About a Complex World |
| title_sort | primer to causal reasoning about a complex world |
| topic | social-ecological systems causation in complex systems causal mechanisms directed graphs and structural equations causal relations manipulability and intervention causal and non-causal explanation INUS-conditions statistics and causation combining approaches to causal analysis thema EDItEUR::P Mathematics and Science::PD Science: general issues::PDA Philosophy of science thema EDItEUR::R Earth Sciences, Geography, Environment, Planning::RN The environment::RNU Sustainability thema EDItEUR::P Mathematics and Science::PS Biology, life sciences::PSA Life sciences: general issues::PSAF Ecological science, the Biosphere |
| topic_facet | social-ecological systems causation in complex systems causal mechanisms directed graphs and structural equations causal relations manipulability and intervention causal and non-causal explanation INUS-conditions statistics and causation combining approaches to causal analysis thema EDItEUR::P Mathematics and Science::PD Science: general issues::PDA Philosophy of science thema EDItEUR::R Earth Sciences, Geography, Environment, Planning::RN The environment::RNU Sustainability thema EDItEUR::P Mathematics and Science::PS Biology, life sciences::PSA Life sciences: general issues::PSAF Ecological science, the Biosphere |
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