THE BOOK OF WHY: THE NEW SCIENCE OF CAUSE AND EFFECT

1. Publisher’s Description
2. Authors’ Bios
   • Judea Pearl
   • Dana Mackenzie
3. 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
4. Preface
5. Table of Contents
6. Excerpts for the curious
   • Introduction
   • Chapter 1
   • Chapter 2
7. Errata and updates (last revised: 1.4.2020)
   Additional errata in UK edition (last revised: 12.18.18)
8. Reviews and interviews
   • 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, 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.
   • “Causality in machine learning,” Fastfowardlabs, by Seth Hendrickson, February 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.
   • “Book Review,” ResearchGate, by Norman Fenton, Martin, Neil, and Anthony Constantinou, 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
   • “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
9. Awards and RecognitionBest Science Books 2018

References

1. http://bayes.cs.ucla.edu/WHY/