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Causal Laws

Causal Laws is a theoretical construct in the philosophy of science that articulates invariant regularities specifying the conditions under which one event or state brings about another, distinguishing it from mere correlations by asserting a necessary connection grounded in underlying causal mechanisms.

313

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28.9K

Citations

388

Authors

221

Institutions

Publications per year

2017–2026

31

Variants

Causal Law

Parents

Publications

313

Causality: Models, Reasoning and Inference

Christopher Hitchcock, Judea Pearl · The Philosophical Review · 2001 · 4.8K citations

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Causal Mechanisms in the Social Sciences

Peter Hedström, Petri Ylikoski · Annual Review of Sociology · 2010 · 1.6K citations

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A Probabilistic Theory of Causality.

I. J. Good, Patrick Suppes · Journal of the American Statistical Association · 1972 · 1.3K citations

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THE SECOND CYBERNETICS Deviation-Amplifying Mutual Causal Processes

Magoroh Maruyama · 1963 · 801 citations

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Information causality as a physical principle

Marcin Pawłowski, Tomasz Paterek, Dagomir Kaszlikowski et al. · Nature · 2009 · 788 citations · Full text

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Authors

388

  1. NC
    Nancy Cartwright

    London School of Economics and Political Science, United Kingdom

    6 publications · 723 citations

    6

    h-index

  2. PD
    Phil Dowe

    University of Tasmania, Australia

    4 publications · 574 citations

    4

    h-index

  3. ML
    Marc Lange

    University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, United States

    3 publications · 284 citations

    3

    h-index

  4. CH
    Christopher Hitchcock

    California Institute of Technology, United States

    3 publications · 5.1K citations

    3

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  5. IJ
    I. J. Good

    Virginia Tech, United States

    3 publications · 1.5K citations

    3

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Institutions

221

  1. University of Edinburgh

    Edinburgh, United Kingdom

    4 h-index

    4 publications

    267 citations

  2. Stanford University

    Stanford, United States

    4 h-index

    4 publications

    123 citations

  3. University of Oxford

    Oxford, United Kingdom

    4 h-index

    4 publications

    2.1K citations

  4. University of Michigan

    Ann Arbor, United States

    4 h-index

    5 publications

    281 citations

  5. University of Pittsburgh

    Pittsburgh, United States

    4 h-index

    4 publications

    359 citations

  6. University of California, Los Angeles

    Los Angeles, United States

    3 h-index

    3 publications

    175 citations

  7. University of Cambridge

    Cambridge, United Kingdom

    3 h-index

    3 publications

    112 citations

  8. Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte

    Natal, Brazil

    3 h-index

    3 publications

    246 citations

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Venues

  1. Philosophy of Science

    17 publications · 1.5K citations

    14

    h-index

  2. Choice Reviews Online

    CRO · 12 publications · 2.5K citations

    12

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  3. 11

    h-index

  4. Philosophy and Phenomenological Research

    PPR · 11 publications · 404 citations

    10

    h-index

  5. The Journal of Philosophy

    8 publications · 355 citations

    8

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