Table of Contents

Preface
1: Extrapolation and Heterogeneity
2: Interventions, Causal Effects, and Causal Relevance
3: Causal Structure and Mechanisms
4: The Disruption Principle
5: Extrapolation, Capacities, and Mechanisms
6: Ceteris Paribus and Extrapolation
7: Reduction and Corrective Asymmetry
8: Extrapolation in Social Science
9: Social Mechanisms and Process Tracing
10: Looking Back and Ahead
Appendix
References

About the Author

Daniel Steel is Assistant Professor in the Department of Philosophy at Michigan State University.