Computation and Causation.
The computer’s effect on our understanding of causation has been enormous. By the mid-1980s, philosophical and social-scientific work on the topic had left us with (1) no reasonable reductive account of causation and (2) a class of statistical causal models tied to linear regression. At this time, c...
| Published in: | Metaphilosophy Vol. 33; no. 1/2; pp. 158 - 181 |
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Wiley-Blackwell
Jan2002
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