Causal Inference: What If

Selected reading: A confounding and adjustment example.

How to study this source

• What makes one thing cause another?

  commentaryA confounding and adjustment example

  Choose a worked adjustment example and list the identification assumptions.

• Can a model learn causes?

  commentaryA confounded effect-estimation example

  Choose a worked adjustment example and list the identification assumptions.

Ideas and questions

Read background definitions when a term blocks the argument. Then return to the source and reconstruct its claim in your own words.

Read alongside, read against

• Nature's Capacities and Their Measurement

  Nancy Cartwright. Compare assumptions, evidence and scope with the source above. These are editorial companions, not necessarily direct responses.

• Making Things Happen

  James Woodward. Compare assumptions, evidence and scope with the source above. These are editorial companions, not necessarily direct responses.

• The Cement of the Universe

  J. L. Mackie. Compare assumptions, evidence and scope with the source above. These are editorial companions, not necessarily direct responses.

• Elements of Causal Inference

  Peters, Janzing · Schölkopf. Compare assumptions, evidence and scope with the source above. These are editorial companions, not necessarily direct responses.

• Counterfactuals

  David Lewis. Compare assumptions, evidence and scope with the source above. These are editorial companions, not necessarily direct responses.