Why look at causality in the sciences? A manifesto

Causality in the Sciences

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages

  Illari, Phyllis McKay ^a   Russo, Federica ^a   Williamson, Jon ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KENT   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Causality; Causation; Mechanisms; Probability; Sciences; Statistics

Indexed keywords

EID: 84920142003     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199574131.003.0001     Document Type: Chapter

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