Session: IJSRM-sponsored keynote - Causal inference: Evidence for the single case

Time: Tuesday 3rd July, 14:00 - 15:15

Convenor:

Professor Nancy Cartwright (Durham Univ, UCSD)

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Current thinking about causality is dominated by the demand to establish a counterfactual. This makes it hard to see how process tracing can yield causal conclusions about what happens in a single case. It also makes trouble for post-hoc evaluation of project effectiveness since THAT project cannot both be done and not. This talk offers a catalogue of types of evidence that can argue for/against causation in the single case, irrespective of counterfactuals, and offers a systematic account of causal modelling that shows WHY these are legitimate sources of evidence.

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Presenter: Nancy Cartwright

Causal inference: Evidencing the single case

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Start time: 14:00

Presentation title: Causal inference: Evidence for the single case

Presenter:

Professor Nancy Cartwright (Durham Univ, UCSD)