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Bill Eldridge

Spaces speak, are you listening?

A friend of mine's book should be out in December,
not directly related to this group but might be something
a number of you find interesting.

http://mitpress.mit.edu/catalog/item/default.asp?ttype=2&tid=10947
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Frank Wimberly

MIT Press

Speaking of MIT Press, a book that I contributed to will be available in
a few months(?)

http://mitpress.mit.edu/catalog/item/default.asp?ttype=2&tid=11175

Frank
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Frank C. Wimberly
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Santa Fe, NM 87505???????????wimberly3 at earthlink.net
-----Original Message-----
From: [hidden email] [mailto:[hidden email]] On
Behalf Of Bill Eldridge
Sent: Tuesday, October 24, 2006 1:09 PM
To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group
Subject: [FRIAM] Spaces speak, are you listening?

A friend of mine's book should be out in December,
not directly related to this group but might be something
a number of you find interesting.

http://mitpress.mit.edu/catalog/item/default.asp?ttype=2&tid=10947

Giles Bowkett

MIT Press

Congrats! Looks interesting. I'm still tussling with two books on that
subject -- one, Glymour's intro, and the other, Pearl's math-y book.

On 10/24/06, Frank Wimberly <wimberly3 at earthlink.net> wrote:

> Speaking of MIT Press, a book that I contributed to will be available in
> a few months(?)?
>
> http://mitpress.mit.edu/catalog/item/default.asp?ttype=2&tid=11175
>
>
> Frank
> ---
> Frank C. Wimberly
> 140 Calle Ojo Feliz(505) 995-8715 or (505) 670-9918 (cell)
> Santa Fe, NM 87505wimberly3 at earthlink.net
> -----Original Message-----
> From: friam-bounces at redfish.com [mailto:friam-bounces at redfish.com] On
> Behalf Of Bill Eldridge
> Sent: Tuesday, October 24, 2006 1:09 PM
> To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group
> Subject: [FRIAM] Spaces speak, are you listening?
>
>
> A friend of mine's book should be out in December,
> not directly related to this group but might be something
> a number of you find interesting.
>
> http://mitpress.mit.edu/catalog/item/default.asp?ttype=2&tid=10947
>
>
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Phil Henshaw-2

MIT Press

In reply to this post by Frank Wimberly

Frank, does it distinguish between physical processes, and all their
complex hierarchies of multi-scale behavior, and the explanations for
them we find easier to use? I'd certainly be interested in reading
anyone with another developed point of view on that.

Phil Henshaw ????.?? ? `?.????
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680 Ft. Washington Ave
NY NY 10040
tel: 212-795-4844
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: friam-bounces at redfish.com
> [mailto:friam-bounces at redfish.com] On Behalf Of Frank Wimberly
> Sent: Tuesday, October 24, 2006 3:43 PM
> To: 'The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group'
> Subject: [FRIAM] MIT Press
>
>
> Speaking of MIT Press, a book that I contributed to will be
> available in a few months(?)

>
> http://mitpress.mit.edu/catalog/item/default.asp?ttype=2&tid=11175
>
>
> Frank
> ---
> Frank C. Wimberly
> 140 Calle Ojo Feliz??????????????(505) 995-8715 or (505)
> 670-9918 (cell) Santa Fe, NM 87505???????????
wimberly3 at earthlink.net -----Original > Message-----

> From: friam-bounces at redfish.com
> [mailto:friam-bounces at redfish.com] On Behalf > Of Bill Eldridge
>
> Sent: Tuesday, October 24, 2006 1:09 PM
> To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group
> Subject: [FRIAM] Spaces speak, are you listening?
>
>
> A friend of mine's book should be out in December,
> not directly related to this group but might be something
> a number of you find interesting.
>

Frank Wimberly

MIT Press

Phil,

The best way to answer you may be to refer you to a nice overview of
causation written by my colleague Richard Scheines:

http://www.hss.cmu.edu/philosophy/scheines/causation.pdf

He is a member of Glymour's team. Most of their work deals with
"type-causation" or "causation among variables" (diabetes, diet, taxes,
public policy, lead exposure, IQ, etc.). It has also, however, been
applied to inferring gene regulatory networks. The paper in the book
"Causation and Explanation" was about what is called "actual causation"
or "token causation". An example of the latter is "The Columbia
accident was caused by a piece of insulating foam hitting the wing".

I hope that helps.

Frank

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Frank C. Wimberly
140 Calle Ojo Feliz (505) 995-8715 or (505) 670-9918 (cell)
Santa Fe, NM 87505 wimberly3 at earthlink.net

-----Original Message-----
From: [hidden email] [mailto:[hidden email]] On
Behalf Of Phil Henshaw
Sent: Tuesday, October 24, 2006 9:53 PM
To: 'The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group'
Subject: Re: [FRIAM] MIT Press

Frank, does it distinguish between physical processes, and all their
complex hierarchies of multi-scale behavior, and the explanations for
them we find easier to use? I'd certainly be interested in reading
anyone with another developed point of view on that.

Phil Henshaw ????.?? ? `?.????
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
680 Ft. Washington Ave
NY NY 10040
tel: 212-795-4844
e-mail: pfh at synapse9.com
explorations: www.synapse9.com

http://mitpress.mit.edu/catalog/item/default.asp?ttype=2&tid=10947

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