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James Woodward

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1979

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University of Pittsburgh(Current)

California Institute of Technology

James Woodward is an author at University of Pittsburgh specializing in causal reasoning, causal inference, and social sciences.

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Causal InferenceCausal ReasoningSocial SciencesPublic HealthCognitive ScienceCausal StructureEpistemologyPsychologyCausal PerceptionReasoning

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1979–2024

46

Publications

46

Saving the Phenomena

James Bogen, James Woodward · The Philosophical Review · 1988 · 902 citations

Formal Semantics, Correspondence Rules, Cognitive Science +14

Causation in biology: stability, specificity, and the choice of levels of explanation

James Woodward · Biology & Philosophy · 2010 · 448 citations

Behavioral Sciences, Cognitive Science, Evolutionary Biology +7

Independence, Invariance and the Causal Markov Condition

Daniel M. Hausman, James Woodward · The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science · 1999 · 381 citations

Many Criticisms, Economics, Causal Perception +12

Explanation and Invariance in the Special Sciences

James Woodward · The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science · 2000 · 346 citations

Cognitive Science, Engineering, Automated Reasoning +13

Explanatory Generalizations, Part I: A Counterfactual Account

James Woodward, Christopher Hitchcock · Noûs · 2003 · 306 citations

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