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This paper forms the editorial introduction to a special issue of Synthese devoted to causation in the social sciences. I want to stress that the views and interpretations which follow are my own, and that where I have drawn connections between the work of different authors, it is not to be inferred that those authors would necessarily agree to the correctness of the connections I have made. Whenever mention is made of an author's paper without a specific reference cited, that paper is the one included in this issue. This article was written while the author held NSF grant SES 84-10898, and the support is gratefully acknowledged, as is the hospitality of the Center for Philosophy of Science, University of Pittsburgh.
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Humphreys, P. Causation in the social sciences: An overview. Synthese 68, 1–12 (1986). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00413963
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