Making Things Happen
A Theory of Causal Explanation
Woodward, James Professor of Philosophy, California Institute of Technology
Print publication date: 2004 (this edition)
Published to Oxford Scholarship Online: January 2005
Print ISBN-13: 978-0-19-515527-3
doi:10.1093/0195155270.003.0007
James Woodward
This chapter applies the ideas about intervention and invariance developed in previous chapters to so-called causal models of the sort used in the social, behavioral, and biomedical sciences. Both regression models and structural equation models are explored and a modularity condition is defended in connection with the latter. Connections with the Causal Markov condition are also briefly discussed.
Keywords: causal models,, regression,, structural equations,, modularity,, Causal Markov condition,
doi:10.1093/0195155270.003.0007
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