LTT: Aydin Mohseni - A Bayesian Reduction of Causation in Causal ModelsAydin Mohseni (Carnegie Mellon University)
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University of Pittsburgh, 4200 Fifth Avenue
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LTT: Aydin Mohseni
Friday, September 19th @ 12:00 pm - 1:30 pm EST
Title: A Bayesian Reduction of Causation in Causal Models
Abstract:
The ontological status and explanatory role of causation has been a perennial puzzle. In recent work, Pearl and Mackenzie (2018) advance the thesis of a causal hierarchy (PCH) and posit the irreducibility of causal claims to purely probabilistic ones. Bareinboim et al. (2022) claim to have proven this irreducibility in the context of structural causal models (SCMs). We challenge this claim and demonstrate a general reduction of interventional propositions to probabilistic ones within the same context of SCMs and proffer a de Finetti-style representation theorem for causal learning and reasoning.
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Zoom: https://pitt.zoom.us/j/98127984221
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCrRp47ZMXD7NXO3a9Gyh2sg
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