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14Causal Search, Causal Modeling, and the FolkIn Justin Sytsma & Wesley Buckwalter (eds.), A Companion to Experimental Philosophy, Wiley. 2016.Causal models provide a framework for precisely representing complex causal structures, where specific models can be used to efficiently predict, infer, and explain the world. At the same time, we often do not know the full causal structure a priori and so must learn it from data using a causal model search algorithm. This chapter provides a general overview of causal models and their uses, with a particular focus on causal graphical models (the most commonly used causal modeling framework) and …Read more
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7Comorbid science?Behavioral and Brain Sciences 33 (2-3). 2010.We agree with Cramer et al.'s goal of the discovery of causal relationships, but we argue that the authors' characterization of latent variable models (as deployed for such purposes) overlooks a wealth of extant possibilities. We provide a preliminary analysis of their data, using existing algorithms for causal inference and for the specification of latent variable models
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2The case for information fiduciaries: The implementation of a data ethics checklist at Seattle Children’s HospitalJournal of the American Medical Informatics Association 28 (3): 650-652. 2021.
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1The Epistemology of Causal JudgmentDissertation, University of California, San Diego. 2001.We make constant use of causal beliefs in our everyday lives without giving much thought to the source of those beliefs, even for situations about which we have no specific prior causal knowledge. We can ask two distinct types of questions about these causal judgments: descriptive questions and normative questions . The primary goal of this dissertation is to apply normative research on causal judgment to our descriptive theories. ;I begin this dissertation by describing the primary results of r…Read more
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Richer Than ReductionIn David Danks & Emiliano Ippoliti (eds.), Building Theories: Heuristics and Hypotheses in Sciences, Springer International Publishing. 2018.
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University of California, San DiegoHalicioglu Data Science Institute
Department of PhilosophyProfessor
San Diego, California, United States of America