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What Can Mechanisms Do for You? Mechanisms and the Problem of Confounders in the Social Sciences
Philosophy of the Social Sciences 49 (3):210-231 (2019)
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The idea that mechanisms are crucially important to differentiate between genuine and spurious causal relations is ubiquitous both in the philosophical and in the social scientific literature. Yet...Author's Profile
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