Intervention, determinism, and the causal minimality condition

DOI10.1007/S11229-010-9751-1MaRDI QIDQ408322zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Jiji Zhang, Peter Spirtes

Publication date 5 April 2012

Published in Synthese (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1007/s11229-010-9751-1

zbMATH Keywords

probabilitydeterminismcausationinterventioncausal Bayesian networkMarkov condition

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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• Causality as a theoretical concept: explanatory warrant and empirical content of the theory of causal nets

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