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The Causal Structure of Reality, David Papineau (KCL) 4:30 pm
The Causal Structure of Reality, David Papineau (KCL) @ Zoom
Mar 9 @ 4:30 pm – 6:30 pm
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The current pandemic has focused attention on the techniques used by epidemiologists and other non-experimental scientists to infer causal hypotheses from correlational data. I have previously argued* that we need to explain these techniques by reducing causal relationships to dependencies in systems of structural equations with probabilistically independent exogenous variables. In this talk I shall aim to use this account to cast light on (a) single-case counterfactual dependence and actual causation, (b) the content and[...]
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