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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
To enumerate the entire cast of students, friends, colleagues, and teachers who have contributed ideas to this book would amount to writing another book. Still, a few players deserve special mention, from my personal persective. I would like to thank Phil Dawid, for giving me my first audition on the pages of Biometrika; Jamie Robins and Sander Greenland, for turning epidemiology into a graph-speaking community; the late Dennis Lindley, for giving me the assurance that even seasoned statisticians can recognize flaws in their field and rally for its reform; Chris Winship, Steven Morgan, and Felix Elwert for ushering social science into the age of causation; and, finally, Peter Spirtes, Clark Glymour, and Richard Scheines, for their help in pushing me over the cliff of probabilities into the stormy waters of causation.
Digging deeper into my ancient history, I must thank Joseph Hermony, Dr. Shimshon Lange, Professor Franz Ollendorff, and other dedicated science teachers who inspired me from grade school to college. They instilled in many of us first-generation Israelis a sense of mission and historical responsibility to pursue scientific explorations as mankind’s most noble and fun challenge.
This book would have remained a relic of wishful thinking if it were not for my co-author, Dana Mackenzie, who took my wishful thinking seriously and made it a reality. He not only corrected my foreign accent but also took me to distant lands, from the Navy ships of Captain James Lind to the Antarctic expedition of Captain Robert Scott, adding knowledge, stories, structure, and clarity to a mess of mathematical equations that were awaiting an organizing narrative.
I owe a great debt to members of the Cognitive Systems Laboratory at UCLA whose work and ideas over the past three and a half decades formed the scientific basis of this book: Alex Balke, Elias Bareinboim, Blai Bonet, Carlo Brito, Avin Chen, Bryant Chen, David Chickering, Adnan Darwiche, Rina Dechter, Andrew Forney, David Galles, Hector Geffner, Dan Geiger, Moises Goldszmidt, David Heckerman, Mark Hopkins, Jin Kim, Manabu Kuroki, Trent Kyono, Karthika Mohan, Azaria Paz, George Rebane, Ilya Shpitser, Jin Tian, and Thomas Verma.
Funding agencies receive ritualized thanks in scholarly publications but far too little real credit, considering their crucial role in recognizing seeds of ideas before they become fashionable. I must acknowledge the steady and unfailing support of the National Science Fo ............

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