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The Philosophical Review (2001) 110 (4): 639–641.
Published: 01 October 2001
...Christopher Hitchcock CAUSALITY: MODELS, REASONING AND INFERENCE. By Judea Pearl. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000. Pp. xvi, 384. Cornell University 2001 BOOK REVIEWS The Philosophical Review, Vol. 110, No. 4 (October 2001) CAUSALITY...
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The Philosophical Review (2021) 130 (1): 45–96.
Published: 01 January 2021
...J. Dmitri Gallow This article provides a theory of causation in the causal modeling framework. In contrast to most of its predecessors, this theory is model-invariant in the following sense: if the theory says that C caused (didn’t cause) E in a causal model, M , then it will continue to say...
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The Philosophical Review (2010) 119 (4): 565–591.
Published: 01 October 2010
... Watkins's more specific claims that Kant completely rejects a model on which the first relatum of a phenomenal causal relation is an event and that he maintains that real grounds are metaphysically and not just epistemically indeterminate. © 2010 by Cornell University 2010 Our thanks are owed...
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The Philosophical Review (2007) 116 (4): 495–532.
Published: 01 October 2007
... of some of these theories in sections 11–13. In this essay, I will propose a condition that specifies when counter- factual dependence is both necessary and sufficient for token causation. I will develop my account using structural equations and directed graphs to model various causal systems...
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The Philosophical Review (2012) 121 (4): 619–622.
Published: 01 October 2012
... Strevens develops and refines the kairetic account of differ- ence making in terms of conditions for extracting the explanatory kernel from a causal model. An explanatory kernel for some event is in essence the smallest explanatory unit that we are left with when we have applied the kairetic opti...
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The Philosophical Review (2012) 121 (4): 622–625.
Published: 01 October 2012
... Strevens develops and refines the kairetic account of differ- ence making in terms of conditions for extracting the explanatory kernel from a causal model. An explanatory kernel for some event is in essence the smallest explanatory unit that we are left with when we have applied the kairetic opti...
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The Philosophical Review (2012) 121 (4): 625–630.
Published: 01 October 2012
... Strevens develops and refines the kairetic account of differ- ence making in terms of conditions for extracting the explanatory kernel from a causal model. An explanatory kernel for some event is in essence the smallest explanatory unit that we are left with when we have applied the kairetic opti...
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The Philosophical Review (2012) 121 (4): 630–633.
Published: 01 October 2012
... Strevens develops and refines the kairetic account of differ- ence making in terms of conditions for extracting the explanatory kernel from a causal model. An explanatory kernel for some event is in essence the smallest explanatory unit that we are left with when we have applied the kairetic opti...
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The Philosophical Review (2012) 121 (4): 634–636.
Published: 01 October 2012
... and how it did so” (69). In chapter 3 Strevens develops and refines the kairetic account of differ- ence making in terms of conditions for extracting the explanatory kernel from a causal model. An explanatory kernel for some event is in essence the smallest explanatory unit that we are left...
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The Philosophical Review (2018) 127 (3): 371–398.
Published: 01 July 2018
... discussions of causality ( Meek and Glymour 1994 ; Woodward 2003 , 2012 ) as well as in scientific applications such as causal search and discovery algorithms ( Pearl 2000 ; Spirtes, Glymour, and Scheines 2000 ). For interventionists, causal reasoning is relative to the choice of a causal model M...
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The Philosophical Review (2021) 130 (4): 614–619.
Published: 01 October 2021
... electrocuted. The causal modeling theories of causation, as Kroedel discusses in chapter 3, offer more formal developments of this idea. There is another approach that Kroedel doesn’t consider. Whether c is a cause of e should not only depend on the negative counterfactual “if c had not occurred...
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The Philosophical Review (2000) 109 (2): 277–281.
Published: 01 April 2000
... Francisco: Morgan Kaufmann, 1990). ____. 2000 . Causality: Models, Reasoning, and Inference. New York: Cambridge University Press. Reiter, R. 1980 . “A Logic for Default Reasoning.” Artificial Intelligence 13 : 81 -132. Spohn, W. 1988 . “Ordinal Conditional Functions: A Dynamic Theory...
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The Philosophical Review (2001) 110 (3): 361–396.
Published: 01 July 2001
... Causation.” British Journal for the Philosophy of Science 40 : 523 -44. Paul, L. A. 2000 . “Aspect Causation.” Journal of Philosophy 97 : 235 -56. Pearl, J. 2000 . Causality: Models, Reasoning, and Inference. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ____. 2001 . “Direct and Indirect...
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The Philosophical Review (2011) 120 (3): 383–421.
Published: 01 July 2011
...; it essentially consists in causal mapping. Unlike the comparative model presupposed in the literature on deliberation, Aristotle's model can account for the virtuous agent's deliberation, as well as deliberation with a view to “satisficing” desires and deliberation that fails to uncover any expedient course...
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The Philosophical Review (2015) 124 (4): 441–480.
Published: 01 October 2015
... to develop a model of ignorance that does better. But why bother? Isn't inexpressible ignorance just a curiosity, in the pejorative sense? No, for it arises in a number of other cases. Let me describe two. First, properties. What is the relation between a property and its causal role? One view...
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The Philosophical Review (2017) 126 (1): 1–41.
Published: 01 January 2017
... . Kornblith Hilary 2002 . Knowledge and Its Place in Nature . Oxford : Oxford University Press . Lackey Jennifer 2005 . “ Testimony and the Infant/Child Objection .” Philosophical Studies 126 , no. 2 : 163 – 90 . Lee Kok Yong 2015 . “ Causal Models and the Ambiguity...
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The Philosophical Review (2013) 122 (2): 289–306.
Published: 01 April 2013
... Principles of Choice .” In Essays in Honor of Carl G. Hempel , ed. Rescher N. , 114 – 46 . Dordrecht : D. Reidel . Skyrms B. 1980 . Causal Necessity . New Haven : Yale University Press . Sloman S. 2005 . Causal Models . Oxford : Oxford University Press . Sobel J...
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The Philosophical Review (2015) 124 (1): 119–152.
Published: 01 January 2015
... 182 , no. 3 : 413 – 32 . Moore Cristopher , and Mertens Stephan 2011 . The Nature of Computation . Oxford : Oxford University Press . Pearl Judea 2000 . Causality: Models, Reasoning, and Inference . Cambridge : Cambridge University Press . Pereboom Derk...
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The Philosophical Review (2011) 120 (3): 447–452.
Published: 01 July 2011
... action, and it’s not until then that they have intentions to act. According to Mele, the Nonmental Causation model poses no threat to (FW) or (H). As long as things like beliefs, desires, decisions, intentions, and so on are parts of the causal chains leading to actions, it doesn’t matter...
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The Philosophical Review (2011) 120 (3): 452–455.
Published: 01 July 2011
... not until then that they have intentions to act. According to Mele, the Nonmental Causation model poses no threat to (FW) or (H). As long as things like beliefs, desires, decisions, intentions, and so on are parts of the causal chains leading to actions, it doesn’t matter if the causal processes begin...