The Why of Things

From the author of the landmark bestseller The-Thirty-Six-Hour-Day comes a lucid, engaging, and nuanced treatment of one of the essential questions in science, medicine, and life: "Why?"

List of contents

Preface
Introduction
1. Historical Overview: The Four Approaches to Causality
2. The Three-Facet Model: An Overview
3. The Answer Is Either "No" or "Yes": Causality as a Categorical Concept
4. Probabilities
5. A Third Model of Causality: The Emergent
6. Empirical: The Physical Sciences
7. Empirical: The Biological Sciences
8. Empirical: Epidemiology
9. Narrative Truth: The Empathic Method
10. Cause in the Ecclesiastic Tradition
11. Seeking the Why of Things: The Model Applied
References
Index

About the author

Peter Rabins is the Richman Family Professor for Alzheimer's and Related Diseases and director of the Geriatric Psychiatry program in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at Johns Hopkins University and a member of the Johns Hopkins Berman Bioethics Institute. He is the author or editor of eight books and coauthor of the landmark title The Thirty-Six-Hour Day: A Family Guide to Caring for Persons with Alzheimer Disease, Related Dementing Illnesses, and Memory Loss in Later Life.

Summary

From the author of the landmark bestseller The-Thirty-Six-Hour-Day comes a lucid, engaging, and nuanced treatment of one of the essential questions in science, medicine, and life: "Why?"

Product details

• Authors: Peter Rabins, Peter (John Hopkins) Rabins, Peter V. Rabins
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.09.2015
• EAN: 9780231164733
• ISBN: 978-0-231-16473-3
• No. of pages: 304
• Dimensions: 145 mm x 223 mm x 20 mm
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > General; Medicine: general issues, SCIENCE / Life Sciences / General, PHILOSOPHY / Logic, MATHEMATICS / Probability & Statistics / General, SCIENCE / Physics / Quantum Theory, Philosophy, SCIENCE / Philosophy & Social Aspects, SCIENCE / Life Sciences / Genetics & Genomics, MEDICAL / Epidemiology, Philosophy of Science, Applied mathematics