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Reply to Daniel Steel's "With or Without Mechanisms"

Centre for Logic and Philosophy of Science, Ghent University, Belgium

In this discussion note I clarify the motivation behind my original paper "Social Mechanisms, Causal Inference and the Policy Relevance of Social Science." I argue that one of the tasks of philosophers of social science is to draw attention to methodological problems that are often forgotten or overlooked. Then I show that my original paper does not make the mistake or fallacy that Daniel Steel suggests in his comment on it.

Key Words: social mechanisms • causal inference • social policy

Philosophy of the Social Sciences, Vol. 38, No. 2, 267-270 (2008)
DOI: 10.1177/0048393108315559


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