Author: Judea Pearl
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Keywords: inference, reasoning, models, causality
Number of Pages: 478
Published: 2009-09-14
List price: $49.00
ISBN-10: 052189560X
ISBN-13: 9780521895606

Written by one of the preeminent researchers in the field, this book provides a comprehensive exposition of modern analysis of causation. It shows how causality has grown from a nebulous concept into a mathematical theory with significant applications in the fields of statistics, artificial intelligence, economics, philosophy, cognitive science, and the health and social sciences. Judea Pearl presents and unifies the probabilistic, manipulative, counterfactual, and structural approaches to causation and devises simple mathematical tools for studying the relationships between causal connection

Author: Judea Pearl
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Keywords: inference, reasoning, models, causality
Number of Pages: 384
Published: 2000-03-13
List price: $55.00
ISBN-10: 0521773628
ISBN-13: 9780521773621

Written by one of the pre-eminent researchers in the field, this book provides a comprehensive exposition of modern analysis of causation. It shows how causality has grown from a nebulous concept into a mathematical theory with significant applications in the fields of statistics, artificial intelligence, philosophy, cognitive science, and the health and social sciences. Pearl presents a unified account of the probabilistic, manipulative, counterfactual and structural approaches to causation, and devises simple mathematical tools for analyzing the relationships between causal connections, stat

Author: Leonard B. Glick
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Keywords: modern, america, judea, ancient, flesh, circumcision, marked
Number of Pages: 384
Published: 2005-06-30
List price: $99.00
ISBN-10: 019517674X
ISBN-13: 9780195176742

The book of Genesis tells us that God made a covenant with Abraham, promising him a glorious posterity on the condition that he and all his male descendents must be circumcised. For thousands of years thereafter, the distinctive practice of circumcision served to set the Jews apart from their neighbors. The apostle Paul rejected it as a worthless practice, emblematic of Judaism’s fixation on physical matters. Christian theologians followed his lead, arguing that whereas Christians sought spiritual fulfillment, Jews remained mired in such pointless concerns as diet and circumcision. As ti