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24 Post author: Johnicholas 30 August 2009 05:34PM

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Comment author: Johnicholas 30 August 2009 09:22:16PM *  0 points [-]

Oddly enough, Twardy's research in philosophy (as opposed to philosophy education) is related to Pearlean counterfactuals. He worked somewhat with Lucas Hope on a tool called "Causal Reckoner".

See:

http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1082172&dl=GUIDE&coll=GUIDE&CFID=49488126&CFTOKEN=18921351

And:

http://www.springerlink.com/content/30m8ac6uafkxu9k3/

However, my google-fu is not strong enough to find the software itself. Possibly contacting the various individuals involved would be necessary.

Comment author: gwern 31 August 2009 05:06:14AM 0 points [-]

I don't suppose there are any non-paywall versions?

Comment author: jhl 31 August 2009 08:20:21PM *  2 points [-]
Comment author: matt 06 September 2009 04:31:31AM 3 points [-]

Let me google that for you:

Very-OT: have you guys seen the awesome lmgtfy?