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Martyna Swiatczak's paper entitled "Towards a neo-configurational theory of intrinsic motivation" was published in Motivation and Emotion (2021): https://doi.org/10.1007/s11031-021-09906-1
New CNA software published on The Comprehensive R Archive Network.
Martyna Swiatczak's paper on "Different algorithms, different models" was published in Quality & Quantity (2021): https://doi.org/10.1007/s11135-021-01193-9
The CNA group is very happy to announce that the Research Council of Norway (Forskningsrådet) will fund the further development of CNA with NOK 12,000,000 (about 1,2 M EUR) over the coming years.
Michael Baumgartner's paper on "Qualitative Comparative Analysis and robust sufficiency" was published in Quality & Quantity (2021): https://doi.org/10.1007/s11135-021-01157-z
L. Casini and M. Baumgartner (2021), The PC Algorithm and the Inference to Constitution, The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science. doi: 10.1086/714820. Online supplementary material; [penultimate draft]
New procedure estimating the robustness of configurational causal models introduced in a paper in Sociological Methods & Research
A procedure for optimizing the fit of configurational causal models has been introduced in a new paper published in Sociological Methods & Research.
Christoph Falk (PhD 2020, Geneva) has joined the CNA project as a part-time researcher.
The Wittgenstein Archive (WAB) has been awarded 1,670,000 NOK (about 167,000 EUR) for quality assurance and updating of the world's research infrastructure for Wittgenstein's Nachlass.
In this book Kevin Cahill explores the question of what it means to be a human being through sustained and original analyses of three important philosophical topics: relativism, skepticism, and naturalism in the social sciences.
The CNA method has been showcased in the flagship journal of implementation science.
CNA has been applied in a study on factors influencing the implementation of a colorectal cancer screening improvement program in community health centers.
When Wittgenstein died, he had commissioned his good friends and students Rush Rhees, Elisabeth Anscombe and Georg Henrik von Wright to publish his surviving manuscripts as they saw fit. In this book, Christian Erbacher gives us an insight into how this work ended in what we know today as the late Wittgenstein's philosophy.
The Bergen Network for Women in Philosophy (BNWP) invites applications for two stipends, that support the work of female (inclusively defined) early career researchers in philosophy.
The CNA method was applied in a study about the patient safety culture in medical homes.
Susan Hickman et al. (2020) published an article entitled "Identifying the Implementation Conditions Associated With Positive Outcomes in a Successful Nursing Facility Demonstration Project" in the Gerontologist. They analyze their data using Coincidence Analysis.
Michael Baumgartner published an article introducing the main theories of causation to political scientists in the SAGE Handbook of Political Science.

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