Causal necessity: A pragmatic investigation of the necessity of laws

By Brian Skyrms. 1980

How researchers see this paper

The researchers whose trusted networks rank it highest, strongest advocate first. Every researcher gets a different order.

1. Yoshua Bengio
2. David Lopez-Paz
3. Sergey Levine
4. Dacheng Tao
5. Fei Ye
6. Trevor Darrell
7. Bernt Schiele
8. Luc Van Gool

Citations in the corpus

• Invariant Risk Minimization (2019, background): “A large body of philosophical work [47, 42, 38, 12, 54, 13] studies the close link between invariance and causation.”
• Toward Idealized Decision Theory (2015, background): “Section 7 concludes by tying this study of decision theory back to the more general problem of aligning smarter-than-human systems with human interests.”
• Toward a Unified Theory of Causality (2008, unknown): “Also see Cartwright (1989); Eells (1991); Eells and Sober (1983); Good (1961, 1962); Lewis (2000); Menzies (2004); Pearl (2000); Skyrms (1980); Suppes (1970).”