Revitalizing Causality: Realism about Causality in Philosophy and Social Science

Book Cover......Page 1
Title......Page 6
Copyright......Page 7
Contents......Page 10
Contributors......Page 12
Acknowledgements......Page 16
Introduction: Realism about causality......Page 18
Part I: Key formulations......Page 28
1 Critical realism and substance......Page 30
2 Causality and substance......Page 43
3 Essence and accident......Page 62
4 Conceptual and natural necessity......Page 73
5 Powers and dispositions......Page 93
Part II: Realism about causality in philosophy......Page 110
6 Meaning, truth, and causal explanation: The ‘Humean condition’ revisited......Page 112
7 Aristotelian powers......Page 146
8 Powers, dispositions, properties or a causal realist manifesto......Page 156
9 Inessential Aristotle: Powers without essences......Page 169
10 Causal exclusion and evolved emergent properties......Page 180
11 Are there natural kinds in psychology?......Page 196
Part III: Realism about causality in social science......Page 210
12 Sociology’s causal confusion......Page 212
13 The mother of all “isms”: Organizing political science around causal mechanisms......Page 222
14 Marxian crisis theory and causality......Page 237
15 On the clear comprehension of political economy: Social kinds and the signi.cance of Section 2 of Marx’s Capital......Page 259
Index......Page 278