This pioneering work is the first to trace how our understanding of the causes of human behavior has changed radically over the course of European and American
This volume investigates the different attitudes of historians and other social scientists to questions of causality. It argues that historical theorists after
A Turing Award-winning computer scientist and statistician shows how understanding causality has revolutionized science and will revolutionize artificial intell
This volume investigates the different attitudes of historians and other social scientists to questions of causality. It argues that historical theorists after
Causation is a central topic in many areas of philosophy. In metaphysics, philosophers want to know what causation is, and how it is related to laws of nature,