#causal reasoning

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Causal inference and random trials

Causal inference and random trials

image: Tamil Nadu nutrition study Nancy Cartwright has spent much of her career probing the assumptions scientists make about causation. She has helped to demonstrate that the Humean assumptions about causation that philosophers (including Carl Hempel) carried into twentieth century philosophy of science don’t come close to answering the question correctly, and she has provided many reasons to…

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Causal concepts

source: D. Little, “Causal Explanation in the Social Sciences,” Southern Journal of Philosophy (1995) (link) It may be useful to provide a brief account of some of the key ideas that are often invoked in causal explanations in the social sciences. (Here is an earlier post that summarized some current issues in causation research; link. And here are several earlier articles on causal…

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Style. A physical generative process?

I like to induce reactions in order to understand people mind. But, are they understanding mine when I am wearing this balloon shaped shorts from Eduardo Amorim Atelier?

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Causal diagrams and causal mechanisms

Causal diagrams and causal mechanisms

There is a long history of the use of directed causal diagrams to represent hypotheses about causation. Can the mathematics and graphical systems created for statistical causal modeling be adapted to represent and evaluate hypotheses about causal mechanisms and outcomes? In the causal modeling literature the structure of a causal hypothesis is something like this: variable T increases/ decreases…

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Crows as clever as seven-year-old children say researchers

Crows as clever as seven-year-old children say researchers

Crows have long been considered one of the most intelligent species of birds, and a new study supports this theory, finding that birds have an understanding of causal reasoning similar to that of a five to seven year old child.

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In previous articles we were speculating on an importance of proof and arguments in it. Now let’s see how to use those arguments to build a strong logical link that would act like a polestar in your work.