A new proposal how to handle counterexamples to Markov causation à la Cartwright, or: fixing the chemical factory

DOI10.1007/s11229-018-02014-7zbMath1475.03060OpenAlexW2900559028WikidataQ124812315 ScholiaQ124812315MaRDI QIDQ2054143

Alexander Gebharter, Nina Retzlaff

Publication date: 1 December 2021

Published in: Synthese (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11229-018-02014-7

zbMATH Keywords

causationMarkov conditionscreening offcausal modelingCartwright

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Foundations and philosophical topics in statistics (62A01) Probability and inductive logic (03B48) Logic in the philosophy of science (03A10)

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