[ Michel Mouchart and Federica Russo (2011), “Causal explanation: Recursive decompositions and mechanisms”, in P. Illari et al. (eds.)(2011), Causality in the Sciences (Oxford University Press), pp. 317-337. ]
15.1 The quest for causal explanations in the social sciences
15.2 The structure of the statistician’s explanation
15.2.1 Explanation in a stochastic environment
15.2.2 The multivariate aspect of social phenomena
15.2.3 Difficulties
15.3 Explanatory mechanisms
15.3.1 Interpreting recursive decompositions
15.3.2 Recursive decompositions and mechanisms
15.3.3 Mechanisms, explanation, causality
15.3.4 Evaluation/flexibility of explanation
15.4 Concluding remarks
15.1 The quest for causal explanations in the social sciences
15.2 The structure of the statistician’s explanation
15.2.1 Explanation in a stochastic environment
15.2.2 The multivariate aspect of social phenomena
15.2.3 Difficulties
15.3 Explanatory mechanisms
15.3.1 Interpreting recursive decompositions
15.3.2 Recursive decompositions and mechanisms
15.3.3 Mechanisms, explanation, causality
15.3.4 Evaluation/flexibility of explanation
15.4 Concluding remarks
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