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Language: en
Pages: 221
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Type: BOOK - Published: 2018-06-12 - Publisher: Princeton University Press
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Language: en
Pages: 295
Pages: 295
Type: BOOK - Published: 2018 - Publisher:
Causal questions are relevant to all sciences and social sciences, yet how we discover causal connections is no easy matter. Indeed, the choice of methods conce
Language: en
Pages: 432
Pages: 432
Type: BOOK - Published: 2018-05-15 - Publisher: Basic Books
A Turing Award-winning computer scientist and statistician shows how understanding causality has revolutionized science and will revolutionize artificial intell
Language: en
Pages: 297
Pages: 297
Type: BOOK - Published: 2013-08-20 - Publisher: Columbia University Press
Why was there a meltdown at the Fukushima power plant? Why do some people get cancer and not others? Why is global warming happening? Why does one person get de
Language: en
Pages: 349
Pages: 349
Type: BOOK - Published: 2013-10 - Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
This book is the first comprehensive attempt to solve what Hartry Field has called "the central problem in the metaphysics of causation": the problem of reconci