January 21, 2011
by peter.taylor
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Idea: Relationships among associations, predictions, causes, and interventions run through all the cases and controversies in this course. The idea introduced in this session is that epidemiology has two faces: One from which the thinking about associations, predictions, causes, and … Continue reading
October 26, 2010
by peter.taylor
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Conventionally, counterfactual analysis has not been endorsed by historians and social scientists. This post addresses some typical objections. The first objection is that, given the multiplicity of components present in any web—a nearly infinite number of alternatives exist—how does one … Continue reading
October 25, 2010
by peter.taylor
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Cause and explanation are vexed terms in interpretations of science (Woolgar 1981; Latour 1988a); in fact, they are in social science more generally (Lloyd 1986; Miller 1991). I am interested enough in the “heterogeneous constructionist” sense of causality and explanation … Continue reading