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      Computational causal discovery: advantages and assumptions 

      Zhang, Kun (Servicio Editorial de la Universidad del País Vasco/Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatearen Argitalpen Zerbitzua, 2022)
      I would like to congratulate James Woodward for another landmark accomplishment, after publishing his Making things happen: A theory of causal explanation (Woodward, 2003). Making things happen gives an elegant interventionist ...
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      Flagpoles anyone? Causal and explanatory asymmetries 

      Woodward, James (Servicio Editorial de la Universidad del País Vasco/Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatearen Argitalpen Zerbitzua, 2022)
      This paper discusses some procedures developed in recent work in machine learning for inferring causal direction from observational data. The role of independence and invariance assumptions is emphasized. Several familiar ...
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      Editors' introduction 

      Artiga Galindo, Marc; González de Prado Salas, Javier (Servicio Editorial de la Universidad del País Vasco/Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatearen Argitalpen Zerbitzua, 2022)
      Editors' introduction to 'James Woodward: Causal and explanatory asymmetries'.; Introducción de los editores a...
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      The fate of causal structure under time reversal 

      Williams, Porter (Servicio Editorial de la Universidad del País Vasco/Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatearen Argitalpen Zerbitzua, 2022)
      What happens to the causal structure of a world when time is reversed? At first glance it seems there are two possible answers: the causal relations are reversed, or they are not. I argue that neither of these answers is ...
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      On the unity between observational and experimental causal discovery 

      Zhang, Jiji (Servicio Editorial de la Universidad del País Vasco/Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatearen Argitalpen Zerbitzua, 2022)
      In “Flagpoles anyone? Causal and explanatory asymmetries”, James Woodward supplements his celebrated interventionist account of causation and explanation with a set of new ideas about causal and explanatory asymmetries, ...
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      Responses 

      Woodward, James (Servicio Editorial de la Universidad del País Vasco/Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatearen Argitalpen Zerbitzua, 2022)
      Response to comments.; Respuesta a los comentarios.
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      Bi-directionality and time in causal relationships 

      Samaniego, Fernanda (Servicio Editorial de la Universidad del País Vasco/Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatearen Argitalpen Zerbitzua, 2022)
      This paper aims to provide an answer to James Woodward’s article “Flagpoles anyone? Causal and explanatory asymmetries”. It will be conjectured that, when causal directionality depends on the experimental design, it is ...
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      Running it up the flagpole to see if anyone salutes: a response to Woodward on causal and explanatory asymmetries 

      Elliott, Katrina; Lange, Marc (Servicio Editorial de la Universidad del País Vasco/Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatearen Argitalpen Zerbitzua, 2022)
      Does smoke cause fire or does fire cause smoke? James Woodward’s “Flagpoles anyone? Causal and explanatory asymmetries” argues that various statistical independence relations not only help us to uncover the directions of ...