Re: beyond reductionism twice

Posted by glen ep ropella on
URL: http://friam.383.s1.nabble.com/beyond-reductionism-twice-tp7582273p7582308.html

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

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vast majority by adequate governmental action. -- Bertrand Russell


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