Extrapolation and heterogeneity -- Interventions, causal effects, and casual relevance -- Causal structure and mechanisms -- The disruption principle -- Extrapolation, capacities, and mechanisms -- Ceteris paribus and extrapolation -- Reduction and corrective asymmetry -- Extrapolation in social science -- Social mechanisms and process training -- Looking back ahead
Summary
Steel argues that previous accounts of extrapolation are inadequate and proposes a better approach that is able to answer methodological critiques of extrapolation from animal models to humans. His work develops the thought that knowledge of mechanisms linking cause to effect can serve as a basis for extrapolation
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 221-236) and index
