The Increasing Mortality after Age Forty-Five-Some Causes and Explanations

Causes of Mortality during the First Five Years of Life, Yazd City, Iran (2005-2008)

Causes and Explanations Revisited

This paper reconsiders the notions of actual cause and explanation in functional causal models. We demonstrate that isomorphic causal models can generate intuitively different causal pronounce­ ments. This occurs because psychological factors not represented in the model determine what cri­ teria we use to determine causation. This par­ tially explains the difficulty encountered in previ­ ous a...

Forty-five Years After Broadbent: Still No Identification Without Attention

According to Broadbent’s (1958) selective filter theory, people do not process unattended stimuli beyond the analysis of basic physical properties. This theory was later rejected based on numerous findings that people identify irrelevant (and supposedly unattended) stimuli. A careful review of this evidence, however, reveals strong reasons to doubt that these irrelevant stimuli were in fact una...

Investigating the Causes of Infant Mortality

Sur une periode de un an (mars 1974 :1 mars 1975) 572 enfants ont ete hospitalises dans le service de pedia­trie du C.H.U. LOGMANDOLEH ADHAM, de l'Univer­site Nationale d'lran. a Teheran. 69 deces ont ete consta­tes (] 3 "{, des malades admis) dont les 3/4 concernaient les enfants ages de moins de 24 mois, l'autopsie a ete effec­tuce chez 73,8';{, des enfants decedes dans le service. En­viron 4...

Causes and Explanations: A Structural-Model Approach - Part II: Explanations

∗Supported in part by NSF under grants IRI-96-25901 and 0090145. †Supported in part by grants from NSF, ONR, AFOSR, and MICRO. We propose new definitions of (causal) explanation, using structural equations to model counterfactuals. The definition is based on the notion of actual cause, as defined and motivated in a companion paper. Essentially, an explanation is a fact that is not known for cer...