Teacher(s)
Language
English
Prerequisites
The prerequisite(s) for this Teaching Unit (Unité d’enseignement – UE) for the programmes/courses that offer this Teaching Unit are specified at the end of this sheet.
Content
- Scientific representation: point of view, quantification, idealization and approximation
- Statistical modeling in social sciences
- Causation = the action of laws?
- Evolution of causality in social sciences
- Causation = counterfactual dependance?
- Counterfactuals in social sciences
- Causation = manipulability?
- Probability in social science
- Causation = probability/statistical dependance?
- Principle of common cause
- Causation and explanation
- Structural approaches in social sciences
Evaluation methods
Oral exam
Online resources
See Moodle site
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