Causal inference and social activism - book seminar

Causal inference and social activism - book seminar introduces us to two recent publications by Nancy Cartwright and her colleagues.    

Nancy has worked with Eileen Munro and John Pemberton, on her AHRC grant Providing credible evidence for singular causal claims. They have produced a CHESS Working Paper Can I make this policy work here? Using evidence for better policy design, prediction and evaluation, which is a guide for practitioners how to check if the policy change they are trying to implement makes a change and is a success. The philosophy behind the guidance "Causal Processes and their Warrant: A Practical Guide" will be published in a Cambridge University Press book later this year.

Second publication comes from Nancy's collaboration with Samuel Foglesong, Katherine Furman, Byron Hyde, Gabriel Nyberg, Karina Ortiz Villa, Helena Slanickova. They have written a chapter called Towards a Theory of Objectivity for Activist in a recently published book Research and Activism: Ruth First & Activist (ESI Press) by Saleem Badat & Vasu Reddy (Eds).

Welcome to discuss their books with Nancy Cartwright and her colleagues: John Pemberton, Eileen Munro (LSE) and Katherine Furman (University of Liverpool).