The philosophical theory of scientific explanation proposed here involves a radically new treatment of causality that accords with the pervasively statistical c

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A Turing Award-winning computer scientist and statistician shows how understanding causality has revolutionized science and will revolutionize artificial intell

According to modern physics, many objectively improbable events actually occur, such as the spontaneous disintegration of radioactive atoms. Because of high lev