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Causation in Agent-Based Computational Social Science

dc.creatorAnzola Pinzón, David Enriquespa
dc.date.accessioned2020-08-28T15:49:38Z
dc.date.available2020-08-28T15:49:38Z
dc.date.created2020-05-21spa
dc.description.abstractEven though causation is often considered a constitutive aspect of scientific explanation, agent-based computational social science, as an emergent disciplinary field, has systematically neglected the question of whether explanation using agent-based models is causal. Rather than discussing the reasons for this neglect, the article builds on the assumption that, since explanation in the field is already heavily permeated by causal reasoning and language, the articulation of a causal theory of explanation would help standardisation. With this goal in mind, the text briefly explores four candidate accounts of causation on which a causal theory of explanation in agent-based computational social science could be grounded: agent causation, algorithmic causation, interventionist causation and causal mechanisms. It suggests that, while the first two accounts are intuitively appealing, for they seem to stress the most important methodological aspects of agent-based modelling, a more robust theory of causal explanation could be developed if the field focuses, instead, on causal mechanisms and interventions.eng
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dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-34127-5_5
dc.identifier.issnISBN : 978-3-030-34126-8
dc.identifier.issnEISBN : 978-3-030-34127-5
dc.identifier.urihttps://repository.urosario.edu.co/handle/10336/28717
dc.language.isoengspa
dc.publisherSpringer Naturespa
dc.relation.citationEndPage62
dc.relation.citationStartPage47
dc.relation.citationTitleCausation in Agent-Based Computational Social Science
dc.relation.ispartofAdvances in Social Simulation, ISBN : 978-3-030-34126-8; EISBN : 978-3-030-34127-5, (2020); pp. 47-62spa
dc.relation.urihttps://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-030-34127-5_5spa
dc.rights.accesRightsinfo:eu-repo/semantics/restrictedAccess
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dc.sourceCausation in Agent-Based Computational Social Sciencespa
dc.source.instnameinstname:Universidad del Rosario
dc.source.reponamereponame:Repositorio Institucional EdocUR
dc.subject.keywordCausationspa
dc.subject.keywordAgent-based modellingspa
dc.subject.keywordSocial simulation Mechanisms Interventionsspa
dc.titleCausation in Agent-Based Computational Social Sciencespa
dc.title.TranslatedTitleLa causalidad en las ciencias sociales computacionales basadas en agentesspa
dc.typebookParteng
dc.type.hasVersioninfo:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion
dc.type.spaParte de librospa
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