Social Mechanisms and Causal Inference

Philosophy of the Social Sciences

Volumn 34, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 55-78

  Steel, Daniel ^a  

^a MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Anthropology; Causality; Interpretation; Social mechanisms

Indexed keywords

EID: 2342449998     PISSN: 00483931     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0048393103260775     Document Type: Review

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