Books like Causal Learning
Loved Causal Learning by Alison Gopnik? Here are 6 books with the same pull, and why each one fits.
About Causal Learning →6 books
- 1Causality
Causality
Judea PearlA formal treatment of causal models and the logic of interventions, the technical core that many chapters of this volume build on.
- 2Thinking, Fast and Slow
Thinking, Fast and Slow
Daniel KahnemanA survey of how human judgement departs from statistical reasoning, useful for comparing causal intuitions with formal models.
Books like it → - 3The Blank Slate
The Blank Slate
Steven PinkerA critical account of the debate over innate knowledge versus learning, which frames the nativist questions behind causal learning research.
- 4Mindware
Mindware
Richard E. NisbettA discussion of the reasoning tools people learn and use, including causal and statistical thinking, written for a general audience.
- 5Predictably Irrational
Predictably Irrational
Dan ArielyA set of experiments on systematic errors in human decisions, showing where intuitive judgements about cause and value go wrong.
- 6Fooled by Randomness
Fooled by Randomness
Nassim Nicholas TalebAn essay on how people read patterns and causes into random outcomes, a problem that formal causal models are meant to address.
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