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Masking and Causal Relatedness: An Elucidation

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 April 2022

Kenneth Sayre*
Affiliation:
University of Notre Dame

Extract

Having noted my intention to improve upon other statistical analyses of causal relatedness by providing theoretical means to distinguish cause and effect without reference to temporality [1], Professor Shrader argues [3] that the alternative model I offer falters “before the same sort of examples he had previously used to assail” these other analyses. Although the assailant seems both to have misunderstood the model in question and to have overestimated the effect of his counterexamples, his objections provide a welcome opportunity for clarification.

Type
Discussion
Copyright
Copyright © Philosophy of Science Association 1978

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References

[1] Sayre, K. M., “Statistical Models of Causal Relations.” Philosophy of Science, 44 (1977): 203214.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
[2] Sayre, K. M., Cybernetics and the Philosophy of Mind. London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1976.Google Scholar
[3] Shrader, D. W.Sayre's Statistical Model of Causal Relations.” Philosophy of Science, 45 (1978): 630632.10.1086/288841CrossRefGoogle Scholar