The tragic fires in Los Angeles are on track to be among the costliest and most consequential disasters in U.S. history. Various claims are being promoted as to the cause of the disaster — climate ...

It is often easy to relate a particular thing to a certain cause by association, but it is very important in science to also understand causation; why a certain thing is caused by something else. If a ...

In PSCI 3211 The Politics of Economic Inequality in the U.S., the goals of the course include: understanding the political causes of economic inequality; identifying the political factors that cause ...

How people acquire and use knowledge about causal relationships is the focus of a new project at the Georg Elias Müller Institute of Psychology at the University of Göttingen. The Reinhart Koselleck ...

One of the major concerns of the plaintiffs' bar was that the Court of Appeals decision in Bostic seemed to require a showing of strict "but-for" causation—so that but for the exposure to a specific ...

A new method of CCM using which connections between neurons can be inferred based on the causal relationships between spike train data. Understanding the brain’s functional architecture is a ...

The surge in enterprise AI has fueled interest in causal analysis. In this piece, I explore the threads that bind cause and effect - and how they can be applied across a range of industry scenarios.

Causation is often the central concern in proving a toxic tort case. And for those who try toxic tort cases in Texas, the chief case that will determine success is Bostic v. Georgia-Pacific. In Bostic ...