LEADER 04308nam 22006615 450 001 9910866582703321 005 20251113173943.0 010 $a3-031-59135-6 024 7 $a10.1007/978-3-031-59135-8 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC31502930 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL31502930 035 $a(CKB)32569751400041 035 $a(DE-He213)978-3-031-59135-8 035 $a(EXLCZ)9932569751400041 100 $a20240623d2024 u| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 12$aA Primer to Causal Reasoning About a Complex World /$fby Lars-Göran Johansson, Thomas Banitz, Volker Grimm, Tilman Hertz, Emilie Lindkvist, Rodrigo Martínez Peńa, Sonja Radosavljevic, Petri Ylikoski, Maja Schlüter 205 $a1st ed. 2024. 210 1$aCham :$cSpringer Nature Switzerland :$cImprint: Springer,$d2024. 215 $a1 online resource (149 pages) 225 1 $aSpringerBriefs in Philosophy,$x2211-4556 311 08$a3-031-59134-8 327 $aChapter 1. Introduction: Causation in Social-Ecological Systems -- Part I: Semantics of causal expressions -- Chapter 2. Causal Talk Permeates Ordinary Language -- Chapter 3. Causal Talk is Fundamental -- Chapter 4. Causation, Counterfactual Dependence and Potential Outcomes -- Part II: Causation in Science -- Chapter 5. Causal Relations and Causal Relata in Science -- Chapter 6. Causation, Laws and Regularities -- Chapter 7. Inferences from Statistics to Causation -- Chapter 8. Causal Explanations -- Part III: Causation in Complex SES -- Chapter 9. Causation in Social-Ecological Systems Research -- Part IV: Appendices -- A How Does a Theory Relate to Reality? -- B Models -- C. Confidence Intervals and Correlations. 330 $aThis open access book is about causal thinking and the use of causal language, with a focus on introducing philosophical ideas about causation to students and researchers of Social-Ecological Systems (SES). It takes a systematic approach to three central topics: the meanings of different causal expressions, sufficiency of evidence for inferences from observations to causal relations, and how to handle the complexity of causal relations in social-ecological systems. Consequently, the book is divided into three parts. In the first part the authors analyse and discuss the use of causal idiom in ordinary language, and in the second part they scrutinise the use of causal concepts and causal inference in science. Finally, the authors discuss causal reasoning about social-ecological systems in multi- and interdisciplinary contexts. This book provides an analysis of the concept of causation useful in the empirical sciences, where causal notions and idioms often are used without sufficient reflection. Empirical sciences often use causal idiom drawn from ordinary language, and similarly there is little formalisation of causal language and technical concepts in the humanities and social sciences. This book is a valuable resource for the application of current philosophical discussions about the concept of causation, in particular when applied to the analysis of social-ecological systems, but also when applied to research in the sciences and humanities. 410 0$aSpringerBriefs in Philosophy,$x2211-4556 606 $aScience$xPhilosophy 606 $aSustainability 606 $aEcology 606 $aPhilosophy of Science 606 $aSustainability 606 $aEcology 615 0$aScience$xPhilosophy. 615 0$aSustainability. 615 0$aEcology. 615 14$aPhilosophy of Science. 615 24$aSustainability. 615 24$aEcology. 676 $a501 700 $aJohansson$b Lars-Go?ran$0923109 701 $aBanitz$b Thomas$01747476 701 $aGrimm$b Volker$0508439 701 $aHertz$b Tilman$01747477 701 $aLindkvist$b Emilie$01747478 701 $aMartínez Peńa$b Rodrigo$01747479 701 $aRadosavljevic$b Sonja$01747480 701 $aYlikoski$b Petri$0499712 701 $aSchlu?ter$b Maja$01747481 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910866582703321 996 $aA Primer to Causal Reasoning about a Complex World$94179616 997 $aUNINA