Causal determinism was first scientifically articulated by the great French polymath Pierre-Simon Laplace. He contended that if you knew the location of every particle in the universe and the laws ...
This view claims that free will and moral responsibility can be understood in ways that make them compatible with determinism. These compatibilists believe that free will and moral responsibility are ...
Similarly, a self-driving car might recognize objects—pedestrians, crosswalks, and signals—but it is unable to grasp underlying behaviors and actions. Causal inference aims to produce AI systems that ...
Causal inference is the task of drawing conclusions from data about the effects of treatments and other type of interventions. In epidemiology and clinical research, as well as in many other fields, ...
We study the causal effects of income on political attitudes and behavior with a field experiment. In the experiment, a non-profit gifted 1,000 low-income Americans $1,000 per month for three years ...