Causation, Evidence, and Inference (Hardcover)

1. Causation in a Complex World Part I: Evidence 2. What’s Wrong with Our Theories of Evidence? 3. Evidence in Context Part II: Singular Causation 4. Counterfactuals, Thought Experiments and Singular Causal Inference in History 5. Counterfactuals in the Social Sciences 6. Contrastive Causation 7. Singular Causation without Counterfactuals Part III: Causal Laws 8. Time Series, Nonsense Correlations, and the Principle of the Common Cause 9. Causal Laws in Biomedical and Social Research: Evidence, Inference, and Purpose Part IV: Semantics 10. Third Time’s a Charm: Causation, Science, and Wittgensteinian Pluralism 11. Causation in the Biomedical and Social Sciences: An Inferentialist Account