The Book of Why

Pearl, J., & Mackenzie, D. (2018). The Book of Why: The New Science of Cause and Effect. Basic Books.

Type

Book

Intellectual base

Review or monograph

Year

2018

ISBN

9780241242636

Link

https://archive.org/details/bookofwhynewscie0000pear

Cited from

philosophy

Cited by

3 citations across 3 artifacts.

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Primes

• Causality
  • In machine learning deployment, causal models predict behavior under distribution shift and external validity challenges, whereas purely predictive models fail when test conditions diverge from training conditions.

    This sourcePopular synthesis presenting the ladder of causation (association, intervention, counterfactual) and arguing that causal models support prediction under distribution shift and external-validity transport where purely predictive models fail.

• Counterfactuals
  • Modern accounts synthesize Pearl's causal models with philosophical insights (Pearl and Mackenzie 2018)

    This sourcePopular synthesis introducing the ladder of causation (association → intervention → counterfactuals); presents causal-model reasoning for counterfactuals. Verified support for the modern-synthesis / ladder-of-causation claim.

Domain-specific

• Controlling for a variable
  • … adjustment set, method, temporal order, measurement error, positivity and overlap, model form, interactions, missingness, uncertainty, and sensitivity to unmeasured confounding are explicit. to An applied instance preserves the same invariant under a changed scale, notation, jurisdiction, dataset, or implementation..

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