Questioning causality : scientific explorations of cause and consequence across social contexts / Rom Harré and Fathali M. Moghaddam, editors.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Harré, Rom.

Moghaddam, Fathali M.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Causation.

Research.

Social sciences--Research.

Social sciences.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (359 p.)

Distribution:

London : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2024

Place of Publication:

Santa Barbara, Calif. : Praeger, 2016.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

"Covering a topic applicable to fields ranging from education to health care to psychology, this book provides a broad critical analysis of the assumptions that researchers and practitioners have about causation and explains how readers can improve their thinking about causation"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Part One: The Concepts of Causation as Developed by Philosophers; 1. The Discourse Frame; 2. The Temporal Frame; 3. The Explanation Frame; Part Two: Causal Concepts and Research Methods; 4. Causation in Introductory Psychology Texts; Editors' Commentary; 5. Rerum Cognoscere Causas: Dependent and Independent Variables in Psychology; Editors' Commentary; 6. On the Concept of "Effects" in Contemporary Psychological Experimentation: A Case Study in the Need for Conceptual Clarity and Discursive Precision; Editors' Commentary

7. Legislating Causal Logic: Scientifically Based Educational Research in the United StatesEditors' Commentary; Part Three: Causal Concepts and Linguistic Topics; 8. Triggers and Their Consequences for Language Acquisition; Editors' Commentary; 9. Causes of Language Death; Editors' Commentary; 10. A Picture Is Worth a Thousand Words: On Causes, Reasons, and Images; Part Four: Causal Concepts and Medical Contexts; 11. The Notion of Cause in Biomedicine; Editors' Commentary; 12. Causes and Consequences: Pain Research and the Placebo Effect; Editors' Commentary

13. Questioning Causation in Mental HealthEditors' Commentary; 14. Understanding the Person with Alzheimer's Disease from a Causes-and-Consequences Perspective; Editors' Commentary; Part Five: Causal Concepts and Collective Behavior; 15. Causality and Protracted Violent Conflicts: The Case of Internally Displaced Persons; Editors' Commentary; 16. This Causes Conflict! On the Risks of Establishing Causalities through Conflict Analysis and the Consequences of Implementing Those Logics in Conflict Resolution Strategies; Editors' Commentary

17. Causality in the Study of Collective Action and Political BehaviorEditors' Commentary; 18. Assumed Causes of Collective Excellence; Editors' Commentary; Part Six: Causal Concepts and Legal Proceedings; 19. Cause and Consequence in the Law; Editors' Commentary; 20. No Bad Deed Goes Unrewarded: Cause, Consequence, and Deviance in Emerging Technological Regimes; Editors' Commentary; Part Seven: Causal Concepts and Theological and Poetry Studies; 21. Theological Studies; Editors' Commentary; 22. Causality and the Poetry of Witness; Editors' Commentary; Epilogue; Name Index; Subject Index

About the Editors and Contributors

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9798216003823

9798216134879

9781440831799

1440831793

OCLC:

934513968