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The Why of Things – Causality in Science, Medicine, and Life de Peter Rabins

The Why of Things – Causality in Science, Medicine, and Life

Autor Peter Rabins
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 10 sep 2015
From the author of the landmark bestseller The-Thirty-Six-Hour-Day comes a lucid, engaging, and nuanced treatment of one of the essential questions in science, medicine, and life: "Why?"
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780231164733
ISBN-10: 0231164734
Pagini: 304
Ilustrații: 6 figures
Dimensiuni: 219 x 153 x 20 mm
Greutate: 0.39 kg
Editura: Columbia University Press

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Cuprins

Preface
Introduction
1. Historical Overview: The Four Approaches to Causality
2. The Three-Facet Model: An Overview
3. The Answer Is Either "No" or "Yes": Causality as a Categorical Concept
4. Probabilities
5. A Third Model of Causality: The Emergent
6. Empirical: The Physical Sciences
7. Empirical: The Biological Sciences
8. Empirical: Epidemiology
9. Narrative Truth: The Empathic Method
10. Cause in the Ecclesiastic Tradition
11. Seeking the Why of Things: The Model Applied
References
Index