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> “but given my own background I could not but wonder how much farther Pearl would have gotten had he had the training I did as a philosopher.” The review had
by enjoylife 7y ago
> “but given my own background I could not but wonder how much farther Pearl would have gotten had he had the training I did as a philosopher.”
The review had some good call outs but given the above quote and a few surrounding criticisms, this review is more pretentious than anything.
- Luc 7y agoThe reviewer is Tim Maudlin, one of the foremost philosophers of physics. It's kind of hard to find someone better placed than him to review a book about causality, and his comment seems entirely appropriate.