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Cancelled- The Statistical Nature of Causation. David Papineau
4:15 pm
Cancelled- The Statistical Nature of Causation. David Papineau
@ CUNY Grad Center, 7395
Mar 16 @ 4:15 pm – 6:15 pm
For over a hundred years econometricians, epidemiologists, educational sociologists and other non-experimental scientists have used asymmetric correlational patterns to infer directed causal structures. It is odd, to say the least, that no philosophical theories of causation cast any light on why these techniques work. Why do the directed causal structures line up with the asymmetric correlational patterns? Judea Pearl says that the correspondence is a “gift from the gods”. Metaphysics owes us a better answer.[...]
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