- Meccanismi causali e cambiamento sociale
- Nicolò Bellanca
Le cause sufficienti nelle scienze sociali
- Nicolò Bellanca
- © 2026 Author(s) |
- CC BY 4.0
- DOI: 10.36253/979-12-215-1122-2.03
This chapter develops the conceptual and methodological foundations for identifying sufficient causes in the social sciences. It distinguishes sufficient causes from causal mechanisms, shows how mechanisms connect causes and effects through counterfactual reasoning and background conditions, and proposes a procedure based on ideal types, scope conditions, and analytical decomposition. It compares causal-pie and fundamental-causality approaches, defends inference to the best explanation as a rational standard, and identifies the limits imposed by complexity, feedback, and interdependence.
- Keywords:
- sufficient causes,
- causal mechanisms,
- counterfactual reasoning,
- scientific explanation,
- complexity,
University of Florence, Italy - ORCID: 0000-0002-3809-3455
Chapter Information
Chapter Title
Le cause sufficienti nelle scienze sociali
Authors
Nicolò Bellanca
Language
Italian
DOI
10.36253/979-12-215-1122-2.03
Peer Reviewed
Publication Year
2026
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© 2026 Author(s)
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title
Meccanismi causali e cambiamento sociale
Book Subtitle
Un framework interdisciplinare
Authors
Nicolò Bellanca
Peer Reviewed
Number of Pages
240
Publication Year
2026
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© 2026 Author(s)
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Publisher Name
Firenze University Press
DOI
10.36253/979-12-215-1122-2
ISBN Print
979-12-215-1121-5
eISBN (pdf)
979-12-215-1122-2
Series Title
Studi e saggi
Series ISSN
2704-6478
Series E-ISSN
2704-5919