Actual causation: A stone soup essay

Synthese

Volumn 175, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 169-192

  Glymour, Clark ^a   Danks, David ^a   Glymour, Bruce ^b   Eberhardt, Frederick ^c   Ramsey, Joseph ^a   Scheines, Richard ^a   Spirtes, Peter ^a   Teng, Choh Man ^d   Zhang, Jiji ^e  

^a CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b KANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d INSTITUTE FOR HUMAN AND MACHINE COGNITION   (United States)

^e LINGNAN UNIVERSITY   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Actual causation; Bayesian networks; Combinatorics; Intervention; Intuitions

Indexed keywords

EID: 77955095977     PISSN: 00397857     EISSN: 15730964     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11229-009-9497-9     Document Type: Article

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