Sets, Net Effects, Causal Mechanisms, Subpopulations, and Understanding: A Comment on Mahoney

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Philosophy of the Social Sciences Pub Date : 2023-07-06 DOI:10.1177/00483931231188011

S. Turner

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Abstract

This comment discusses the suggestions made in Mahoney’s “Constructivist Set-Theoretic Analysis: An Alternative to Essentialist Social Science” (2023). Mahoney presents an approach to cases of intersectionality or confounding which produce causal results unlike those that result from traditional net effects causal modeling. He presents it as an alternative to “essentialism,” which he describes as a cognitive error. These alternatives have the same problems as those he attributes to net effects analysis, with one exception: the method does allow for the identification of subpopulations with different causal mechanisms producing different outcomes for this subpopulation.

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集合、净效应、因果机制、亚种群和理解:对马奥尼的评论

这篇评论讨论了马奥尼在《建构主义集合论分析:本质主义社会科学的替代》(2023)中提出的建议。马奥尼提出了一种方法来处理产生因果结果的交叉性或混淆情况，而这些结果与传统的净效应因果模型不同。他将其作为“本质主义”的替代方案，他将其描述为一种认知错误。这些替代方案与净效应分析存在同样的问题，但有一个例外:该方法确实允许识别具有不同因果机制的亚种群，为该亚种群产生不同的结果。

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