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Causality, a Trialogue

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  • Chambaz Antoine

    (Modal’X (EA 3454), Université Paris Ouest Nanterre, 200 av de la République, Nanterre 92001, France)

  • Drouet Isabelle

    (SND (FRE CNRS 3593), Université Paris-Sorbonne, Paris, France)

  • Thalabard Jean-Christophe

    (MAP5 (UMR CNRS 8145), Université Paris Descartes & Hôpital Cochin, AP-HP, Paris, France)

Abstract

A philosopher, a medical doctor, and a statistician talk about causality. They discuss the relationships between causality, chance, and statistics, resorting to examples from medicine to develop their arguments. This debate gives rise to an original trialogue, a tribute to the famous conversation between d’Alembert and Diderot, two great French thinkers of the Enlightenment. The trialogue notably offers an introduction to the philosophy of causality and an initiation to statistics, including recent developments that should prove interesting to specialists and laypeople alike.

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  • Chambaz Antoine & Drouet Isabelle & Thalabard Jean-Christophe, 2014. "Causality, a Trialogue," Journal of Causal Inference, De Gruyter, vol. 2(2), pages 201-241, September.
    • Handle: RePEc:bpj:causin:v:2:y:2014:i:2:p:41:n:3
    DOI: 10.1515/jci-2013-0024
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