Robert Simpson Woodward

Reply to Woodward

I thank Dr. Woodward for his illuminating review of my book Causality, for explicating so clearly the basic contributions of the book, and for giving me the opportunity to further clarify some aspects of the do-calculus, specifically those that pertain to the notion of intervention. Woodward’s concerns regarding the notion of atomic intervention (dubbedPI) fall into twomain categories. First, w...

Steve Simpson

Steve Simpson was born and grew up in Australia. After completing his undergraduate degree at the University of Queensland, he travelled to London where he undertook his PhD on locust feeding physiology. Steve then spent 22 years in Oxford, fi rst in Experimental Psychology and then in the Department of Zoology and the Natural History Museum, before being enticed back to Australia in 2005. Toge...

Publications for Mark Woodward 2016

Emdin, C., Rothwell, P., Salimi-Khorshidi, G., Kiran, A., Conrad, N., Callender, T., Mehta, Z., Pendlebury, S., Anderson, S., Mohseni, H., Woodward, M., et al (2016). Blood Pressure and Risk of Vascular Dementia: Evidence from a Primary Care Registry and a Cohort Study of Transient Ischemic Attack and Stroke. Stroke: a journal of cerebral circulation, 47(6), 14291435. <a href="http://dx.doi.org...

Comments on Woodward, Making things happen.

Channing and Simpson in Edinburgh

In August of 1852 Dr. Walter Channing, professor of obstetrics and medical jurisprudence at Harvard Medical School, was about to finish an extensive tour of Europe, having left Boston early in May of that year. He was sixtysix at the time, and almost a half century had passed since his previous trip to that continent where as a medical student he studied in Edinburgh and London. The trip had ta...