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Causation and reason : R.G. Collingwood and causal analysis as the essence of social thinking

Sverre Wide
- 06 Oct 2017 - 
- Vol. 18, Iss: 2, pp 173-195
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In this article, the authors take R. G. Collingwood's writing about causality as its point of departure for answering the question "How are we to understand causal relations and analysis in social science?"
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How are we to understand causal relations and analysis in socialscience? This paper takes R. G. Collingwood’s writing aboutcausation as its point of departure for the answering of thisquestion. Two ...

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