Realistic Models? Critical Realism and Statistical Models in the Social Sciences

Philosophica 71 (1):13-39 (2003)
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Causality: Models, Reasoning and Inference.Judea Pearl - 2000 - New York: Cambridge University Press.
A realist theory of science.Roy Bhaskar - 1975 - New York: Routledge.

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