TY - JOUR
AU - Cartwright, Nancy
AB - BOOK SYMPOSIUM Hunting Causes and Using Them: Approaches in Philosophy and Economics By NANCY CARTWRIGHT Cambridge University Press, 2007. x + 270 pp. £45.00 cloth, £17.99 paper Summary NANCY CARTWRIGHT Hunting Causes and Using Them: Approaches in Philosophy and Economics (HC&UT) is about notions of causality appropriate to the sciences, mostly generic causal claims (causal laws) and especially notions that connect cau- sality with probability. Most of the work for the book is associated with the project ‘Causality: Metaphysics and Methods’. This project argued that metaphysics – our account of what causal laws are or what general causal claims say – should march hand-in-hand with our ways of establishing them. It should be apparent, given the kind of thing we think causality is, why our methods are good for finding it. If our metaphysics does not mesh with and underwrite the methods, we are willing to trust, we should be wary of both. Many philosophers nowadays look for a single informative feature that characterizes causal laws. HC&UT argues instead for causal pluralism, for a large variety of kinds of causal laws as well as purposes for which we call scientific claims causal. Correlatively different methods for testing causal claims 
TI - Hunting Causes and Using Them: Approaches in Philosophy and EconomicsBy Nancy Cartwright
JF - Analysis
DO - 10.1093/analys/anp157
DA - 2010-04-26
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/oxford-university-press/hunting-causes-and-using-them-approaches-in-philosophy-and-economicsby-EQpeL722TM
SP - 307
EP - 310
VL - 70
IS - 2
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