Revisiting complex causality

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Chapter 29 in The Atlas of Social Complexity, 2024, pp 399-415 from Edward Elgar Publishing

Abstract: This chapter revisits our social complexity imagination, extending these ideas to modelling and methods. While the mechanistic clockwork world induces an absolute belief in the power of scientific tools (Chapter 28), it does less so in the power of imagination. Imagination and all its imprecise, unstructured, expressive and ultimately generative forces may be less valued from a clockwork point of view, but it is exactly this lack of imagination that leads to the practices described above. To be clear, we do not believe for a second that there is no imagination in the complexity sciences. It was always a program of imagination, as we wrote in the first two chapters. The imagination in this chapter is applied to the methods exploring complex causality. This chapter also uses insights from Chapter 16, Mindfulness, Imagination, and Creativity.

Keywords: Development Studies; Economics and Finance; Environment; Geography; Innovations and Technology; Politics and Public Policy Research Methods; Sociology and Social Policy; Teaching Methods; Urban and Regional Studies (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2024
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