Hunting Causes and Using Them：Approaches in Philosophy and Economics

HuntingCausesandUsingThemarguesthatcausationisnotonething,ascommonlyassumed,butmany.Thereisahugevarietyofcausalrelations,eachwithdifferentcharacterizingfeatures,differentmethodsfordiscoveryanddifferentusestowhichitcanbeput.Inthiscollectionofnewandpreviouslypublishedessays,NancyCartwrightprovidesacriticalsurveyofphilosophicalandeconomicliteratureoncausality,withaspecialfocusonthecurrentlyfashionableBayes-netsandinvariancemethods-anditexposesahugegapinthatliterature.Almosteveryaccounttreatseitherexclusivelyhowtohuntcausesorhowtousethem.Butwhereisthebridgebetween?It'snogoodknowinghowtowarrantacausalclaimifwedon'tknowwhatwecandowiththatclaimoncewehaveit.Thisbookwillinterestphilosophers,economistsandsocialscientists.