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In Neo-Humean & Mechanismic Paradigms of Inference for Physical Science, author Philippos Afxentiou explores the intersections of causality across physical and social sciences. This work presents an ambitious framework for unifying scientific inference across disciplines, from hard sciences like physics to more conceptually nuanced fields like social science. Drawing on both Humean and mechanistic theories of causality, the book critically examines existing scientific paradigms, addressing their limitations and proposing a path toward greater coherence in understanding causation. Afxentiou's exploration of inductive reasoning, probabilistic causality, and multi-linear causation offers a compelling re-evaluation of what it means to establish a theory that bridges traditionally disparate fields. Ideal for readers with an interest in philosophy of science, this work brings clarity and innovation to one of the most complex debates in modern scientific thought.

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Philippos Afxentiou was born in Larnaca, Cyprus where he currently lives and has studied sciences at UCLA, USA. He has practised teaching, mostly science, in the public and private sector. His strong general epistemic attitude and will to enrich his conceptual ecology dissatisfaction with the lack of conceptual developments in physics led him to take academic routes different from his original plans and from what his background would usually prompt. Initially, he studied extensively the philosophy of science and developed a critical stance to science, both constructively and sometimes revisionist. Later, he did a postgraduate degree in law, to expand his academic horizons and study non-positivist paradigms of inquiry, where he is planning to publish his dissertation in the form of a book in collaboration with a scholar that shares similar views. This is his second book.

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