Professor Nancy Cartwright nancy.cartwright@durham.ac.uk
Professor
Professor Nancy Cartwright nancy.cartwright@durham.ac.uk
Professor
H. Chao
Editor
J. Reiss
Editor
How do we establish singular causal claims? It seems we do this all the time, from courtrooms to cloud chambers. Nevertheless, there is a strong lobby in the evidence-based medicine and policy movements that argues that we cannot make reliable causal judgments about single cases in these areas. So we cannot tell whether a policy or treatment ‘worked’ for any specific individual. This paper argues the contrary. It provides a catalogue of evidence types that can support singular causal claims, and it develops a theoretical framework that shows that these types are evidence for causation in the single case.
Cartwright, N. (2016). Single Case Causes: What is Evidence and Why. In H. Chao, & J. Reiss (Eds.), Philosophy of science in practice : Nancy Cartwright and the nature of scientific reasoning (11-24). Springer Verlag. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-45532-7_2
Online Publication Date | Dec 28, 2016 |
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Publication Date | Dec 28, 2016 |
Deposit Date | Sep 15, 2015 |
Publisher | Springer Verlag |
Pages | 11-24 |
Series Title | Synthese library : studies in epistemology, logic, methodology, and philosophy of science |
Edition | 1st ed. |
Book Title | Philosophy of science in practice : Nancy Cartwright and the nature of scientific reasoning. |
ISBN | 9783319455303 |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-45532-7_2 |
Additional Information | Also Durham University: CHESS Working Paper No. 2015-02. |
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