There is, however, a significance difference between functionalist explanation in biology and functionalist explanation in the social sciences. In biology, functionalist explanations are underwritten ...

Our main example is a causal relation for the influencing factor ‘reduced coefficient of friction’ and its effect on the Brake-Threat-Number. As availability and quality of data are important to ...

Causation and Causal Explanation in Psychiatry—Beyond Scientism and Skepticism Since psychiatry firmly established itself as a scientific discipline, it has been propelled forward by the hope that the ...

Transmitting profits: how telecoms are using casual AI to achieve competitive advantages The global Telecommunications industry is especially excited about the potential of causal AI. This is because ...

Researchers from the University of Wisconsin-Madison propose a framework named “Missingness-aware Causal Concept Explainer “to capture the impact of unobserved concepts in data. They do so by ...

People learn causal relations since childhood using counterfactual reasoning. Counterfactual reasoning uses counterfactual examples which take the form of “what if this has happened differently”.