The Routledge Handbook of Causality and Causal Methods

The Routledge Handbook of Causality and Causal Methods adopts a pluralistic, interdisciplinary approach to causality. It formulates distinct questions and problems of causality as they arise across scientific and policy fields. Exploring, in a comparative way, how these questions and problems are addressed in different areas, the Handbook fosters dialogue and exchange. It emphasizes the role of the researchers and the normative considerations that arise in the development of methodological and empirical approaches. The Handbook includes authors from all over the world and with many different disciplinary backgrounds, and its 51 chapters appear in print here for the first time. The chapters are organized into the following seven parts:

I. Causal Pluralism, from Theory to Practice

II. Causal Theory and the Role of Researchers

III. Features of Causal Systems

IV. Causal methods, Experimentation and Observation

V. Measurement and Data

VI. Causality, Knowledge, and Action

VII. Causal Theory across Disciplinary Borders

Essential reading for scholars interested in an interdisciplinary approach to causality and causal methods, the volume is also a valuable resource for advanced undergraduates as well as for graduate students interested in delving into the rich field of causality.

About the Author

Phyllis Illari is Professor of Philosophy of Science in the Department of Science and Technology Studies at University College London. She has published extensively on causality, mechanisms, evidence and information. With Federica Russo, she co-authored Causality. Philosophical Theory Meets Scientific Practice (2014) and co-edited the European Journal for Philosophy of Science for four years.

Federica Russo is Professor of Philosophy and Ethics of Techno-Science and holds the Westerdijk Chair at the Freudenthal Institute, Utrecht University. She is the author of Techno-Scientific Practices. An Informational Approach (2022), Causality and Causal Modelling in the Social Sciences (2009). With Phyllis Illari, she co-authored Causality. Philosophical Theory Meets Scientific Practice (2014) and co-edited the European Journal for Philosophy of Science for four years.