Jon Williamson Causality
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چکیده
This chapter will focus on the first two questions. The last question is equally important — of course we need to know the best way to make predictions, perform diagnoses and make strategic decisions — but in the absence of a well-entrenched mathematical calculus of causality, the answers given to the last question tend to depend on the answers provided to the first two questions. Standard responses to the first, ontological question are surveyed in §2, while the second, epistemological question is dealt with in §3. I advocate a position I call epistemic causality which is sketched in §4, and which is compared to the positions of Judea Pearl in §5 and Huw Price in §6.1
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