James F. Woodward

Causal Inference & Discovery · 2000–2016

A researcher in the Science corpus: 11 papers; trusts 22 researchers and is trusted by 30 researchers here, as inferred from the citation graph.

Subfields

• Causal Inference & Discovery — 12 citations into it
• History and Philosophy of Science — 11 citations into it; #18 of 602 by trust here, #36 by citations
• Philosophy — 10 citations into it; #149 of 1,040 by trust here, #172 by citations
• Artificial Intelligence — 5 citations into it; #10,285 of 35,345 by trust here, #24,417 by citations
• Experimental and Cognitive Psychology — 5 citations into it; #1,674 of 9,731 by trust here, #3,963 by citations
• Statistics and Probability — 5 citations into it

Whom James F. Woodward trusts overall

Their strongest outbound trust, strongest first, inferred from their citations.

1. Clark Glymour
2. Peter M. Bentler
3. Keith A. Markus
4. Patricia W. Cheng
5. Peter Spirtes
6. Jonathan Schaffer
7. J. Gerring
8. Joseph Y. Halpern
9. Christopher R. Hitchcock
10. Michael Strevens

Who trusts James F. Woodward overall

1. Christopher Grimsley
2. Christopher R. Hitchcock
3. Tim Miller
4. Michael Strevens
5. Elijah Mayfield
6. Carl F. Craver
7. S. Glennan
8. Tobias Gerstenberg
9. Emre Kıcıman
10. Judea Pearl

Papers from James F. Woodward's perspective

Ordered by how strongly the researchers James F. Woodward trusts endorse each paper. Same corpus, a different order for every researcher.

1. Causation
2. Causality : Models , Reasoning , and Inference
3. Making Things Happen: A Theory of Causal Explanation
4. Four decades of scientific explanation
5. Explanatory Unification (Synthese)
6. The Intransitivity of Causation Revealed In Equations and Graphs
7. Causal Inference of Ambiguous Manipulations
8. Causes and Explanations: A Structural-Model Approach. Part I: Causes
9. Causation, Prediction, and Search
10. Explanation and Invariance in the Special Sciences (British Journal for the Philosophy of Science)

Their papers

• Law and Explanation in Biology: Invariance Is the Kind of Stability That Matters (2001) — 102 citations
• The problem of variable choice (2016) — 124 citations
• Simplicity in the Best Systems Account of Laws of Nature (2014) — 47 citations
• A Functional Account of Causation; or, A Defense of the Legitimacy of Causal Thinking by Reference to the Only Standard That Matters—Usefulness (as Opposed to Metaphysics or Agreement with Intuitive Judgment) (2014) — 56 citations
• Mental Causation and Neural Mechanisms (2008) — 159 citations
• Causation With a Human Face (2007) — 123 citations
• Sensitive and Insensitive Causation (2006)
• Explanatory generalizations, part II: Plumbing explanatory depth (2003)
• Making Things Happen: A Theory of Causal Explanation (2003) — 699 citations
• What Is a Mechanism? A Counterfactual Account (2002) — 317 citations
• Explanation and Invariance in the Special Sciences (2000) — 292 citations