Philosophical Foundations of Quantitative Research Methodology

Chapter 1 Preface Chapter 2 1. Philosophy of the Fisherian and Pearsonian Schools Chapter 3 2. Misconceived Links Between Positivism and Quantitative Research Chapter 4 3. Logics of Abduction, Deduction, and Induction Chapter 5 4. Philosophy of Mathematics and Quantitative Research Chapter 6 5. Philosophical Issues of Factor Analysis Chapter 7 6. Causal Inferences and Duhem-Quine Thesis Chapter 8 7. Causal Markov Condition, Faithfulness Assumption, and Virtual Intervention Chapter 9 8. Statistical God of the Gaps? Chapter 10 References Chapter 11 Index