JUDEA PEARL AND DANA MACKENZIE
THE BOOK OF WHY: THE NEW SCIENCE OF CAUSE AND EFFECT
New York: Basic Books, Published May 15, 2018

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Publisher's Description Authors' Bios Judea Pearl Dana Mackenzie Scientific Background Causality and the sciences Causality and Statistics Causality and Artificial Intelligence (video) Causality and Cognitive Science (video) Causality and Economics Causality in epidemiology (video) Causality and Machine Learning "What is Causal Inference?" (video) Preface Table of Contents Excerpts for the curious Introduction Chapter 1 Chapter 2 Errata and updates (last revised: 5.20.21) Additional errata in UK edition (last revised: 12.18.18) Reviews and interviews "Pearl before economists: the book of why and empirical economics," Journal of Economic Methodology, 29(4):326-334, June 2022. "Comments on Nick Huntington-Klein's review `Pearl before economists: The Book of Why and empirical economics," Submitted to Journal of Economic Methodology, January 2023. "No veoimpedimento para quelainteligencia artificial hagalo mismo quela humana," La Vanguardia, June 25, 2022. English translation: "I see no impediment for artificial intelligence to do the same as human intelligence," La Vanguardia, June 25, 2022. "Judea Pearl on Cause and Effect" Podcast (196): Sean Carroll's Mindscape, May 9, 2022. "Judea Pearl, El Padre de la Inteligencia Artificial" XLSemanal, pp. 12-17, April 24, 2022. "Judea Pearl, The Father of Artificial Intelligence" English version (Google translated) XLSemanal, pp. 12-17, April 24, 2022. "Empiricism and Scientific Change in Judea Pearl’s `The Book of Why'" Vishakh, Medium (vishakh.medium.com), March 29, 2021. “Nedensel Devrim ve Makineler [‘Neden’ Sorusunun Kitabı: Neden-Sonuç İlişkisinin Yeni Bilimi, Judea Pearl & Dana Mackenzie]”, Bitig Edebiyat Fakültesi Dergisi, C.1, S.1, s. 268-276, 2021. (Turkish) "Insanely Complicated, Hopelessly Inadequate" by Paul Taylor, London Review of Books, January 21, 2021. "Why The Book of Why is important" (translate Dutch to English available with Google Translate) by Joost Vennekens and Wannes Meert, Karakter, Magazine of Science, #71, 2020. "Virtual GP that beats the doctor to right diagnosis" by Tom Whipple, The Times, UK, August 12, 2020. Book Review, Artificial Intelligence, 284, July 2020, by Norman Fenton, Martin Neil, and Anthony Constantinou Interview by David Hand, "What Statisticians Want to Know about Causal Inference and The Book of Why," http://causality.cs.ucla.edu/blog/ May 31, 2020. "Causing Trouble" by C. Galligan-Lee, New Scientist, April 25, 2020 "Pearl, Judea and Mackenzie, Dana: The book of why: the new science of cause and effect (2018)" by Karamjit S. Gill, AI & Society, April 15, 2020 Interview with Josh Glancy, The Times, UK, January 12, 2020 Reviews, by Jeff Witner, The American Mathematical Monthly, 127:1, 94-96, December 2019. "Judea Pearl: Causal Reasoning, Counterfactuals, Bayesian Networks, and the Path to AGI | AI Podcast," Interview with Lex Fridman, December 11, 2019. "The Book of Why: Exploring the missing piece of artificial intelligence," TechTalks, by Ben Dickson, December 9, 2019. "The Why of the World," BostonReview.net, by Tim Maudlin, September 4, 2019. "Why AI is not AI until it wonders why, Reflections on Judea Pearl's science of causal reasoning," Medium.com, by James Flint, August 9, 2019. "The Book of Why, A Review," Notices of the American Mathematical Society, by Lisa R. Goldberg, 66(7):1093-1097, August 2019. "Causality - The Next Most Important Thing in AI/ML," Data Science Central, by William Vorhies, April 22, 2019. "The Importance of Asking Why -- `The Book of Why: The New Science of Cause and Effect'," Mindfire Tech Blog, by Bruce Nielson, April 16, 2019. "Causality in machine learning," Fastfowardlabs, by Seth Hendrickson, February 2019. Book Review, chemestryworld.com, by Zoë Hackett, January 18, 2019. Il Sole 24 Ore - Domenica (Sunday Cultural Suplement), January 6th 2019. [Italian] [English] Book Review, Journal of MultiDisciplinary Evaluation, by Steve Powell, December 2018. "Author Interview | Judea Pearl," Moment Magazine, by Ellen Wexler, December 16, 2018. "Why `Why' Matters: "The Book of Why","Linkedin, by Drew Levy, December 10, 2018. Interview with M. Ford, by Martin Ford, November 2018. "What a Turing Award-Winning Computer Scientist Learned from Asking `Why?',"Next Big Idea Club, Written by Editors, October 25, 2018. "Why," The Times Literary Supplement, by Tristan Quinn, September 19, 2018. "The Causal Revolutionary, 3:AM Magazine, by Richard Marshall, September 8, 2018. The Heidelberg Laureate Forum Foundation presents, "The HLF Portraits: Judea Pearl," August 3, 2018. "Turing Award Winner, Lontime ASA Member Publishes The Book of Why, Amstat News, by Ron Wasserstein, August 2018 D. Mackenzie, Mind Over Data: The One Thing You Know and Machines Don't, July 18, 2018 (video) "Pearl's `Book of Why' Is a Crowning Achievement," Jewish Journal, by Jonathan Kirsch, July 5, 2018 Book Review, @TAragonMD Blog, by Tomás Aragón, June 11, 2018 "AI pioneer proposes new roadmap to intelligent machines," AXIOS Newsletter, by Steve LeVine, June 3, 2018 "Review: `The Book of Why' Examines the Science of Cause and Effect," New York Times, by Jonathan A. Kneww, June 1, 2018 "Don't worry about the computers taking over...until they ask `why'," The Times, London, by Tom Whipple, May 29, 2018 "Mini-review: The Book of Why," LessWrong, by Brian Slesinsky, May 21, 2018 "AI Can't Reason Why," Wall Street Journal, by Judea Pearl and Dana Mackenzie, May 18, 2018 (WSJ subscribers, Text) "To Build Truly Intelligent Machines, Teach Tem Cause and Effect," Quanta Magazine, by Kevin Hartnett, May 15, 2018 "Artificial intelligence pioneer's new book examines the science of cause and effect," UCLA Newsroom, Matthew Chin, May 09, 2018 Awards and Recognition Best Science Books 2018