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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      20 April 2010
      28 July 1998
      ISBN:
      9780511663710
      9780521622899
      9780521052429
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511663710
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.58kg, 320 Pages
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.49kg, 320 Pages
      • Subjects:
      Physics and Astronomy, Philosophy of Science, History, Philosophy and Foundations of Physics, Philosophy
      Series:
      Cambridge Studies in Probability, Induction and Decision Theory
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    Subjects:
    Physics and Astronomy, Philosophy of Science, History, Philosophy and Foundations of Physics, Philosophy
    Series:
    Cambridge Studies in Probability, Induction and Decision Theory
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    This book, by one of the pre-eminent philosophers of science writing today, offers the most comprehensive account available of causal asymmetries. Causation is asymmetrical in many different ways. Causes precede effects; explanations cite causes not effects. Agents use causes to manipulate their effects; they don't use effects to manipulate their causes. Effects of a common cause are correlated; causes of a common effect are not. This book explains why a relationship that is asymmetrical in one of these regards is asymmetrical in the others. Hausman discovers surprising hidden connections between theories of causation and traces them all to an asymmetry of independence. This is a major book for philosophers of science that will also prove insightful to economists and statisticians.

    Reviews

    ‘Any serious student of causality - economist or philosopher - will find careful study of Hausman’s a valuable tool for clarifying his or her own thinking about causality.’

    Source: Journal of Economic Methodology

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