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Free Download A Primer to Causal Reasoning About a Complex World by Lars-Göran Johansson , Thomas Banitz , Volker Grimm , Tilman Hertz , Emilie Lindkvist , Rodrigo Martínez Peña , Sonja Radosavljevic , Petri Ylikoski , Maja Schlüter
English | PDF EPUB (True) | 2024 | 149 Pages | ISBN : 3031591348 | 7.3 MB
This 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.