Russ Abbott wrote at 03/26/2013 12:01 PM: > _Causation and Explanation_ looks like a good book. Strangely, its > Amazon paperback price > <http://www.amazon.com/Causation-Explanation-Topics-Contemporary-Philosophy/dp/B008SLYJ4G/ref=wl_it_dp_o_pC_S_nC?ie=UTF8&colid=QIM4OPN4IQSS&coliid=I1V01X94UI8MFU> > is > only $13.52 even though its Amazon Kindle price is $28.80. (I just > ordered one of the 3 copies remaining in stock.) > > I have no problem with the > manipulatist/Baysian/experimentalist/social-studies approach to > causation. It's a way to establish a connection between A and B that's > stronger than correlation. (More or less: if changing A changes B, then > A is a cause of B.) > > But that doesn't explain how A causes B. It's in that sort of > how-explanation that I don't see scientific talk of causation.
This one's pretty good: Causality: Models, Reasoning, and Inference by Judea Pearl http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/174276.Causality -- glen e. p. ropella, 971-255-2847, http://tempusdictum.com There is no nonsense so errant that it cannot be made the creed of the vast majority by adequate governmental action. -- Bertrand Russell ============================================================ FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College to unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com
