The book of why: the new science of cause and effect

Introduction : Mind over data --

The ladder of causation --

From buccaneers to guinea pigs the genesis of causal inference --

From evidence to causes: Reverend Bayes meets Mr. Holmes --

Confounding and deconfounding: or, slaying the lurking variable --

The smoke-filled debate: clearing the air --

Paradoxes galore! --

Beyond adjustment: the conquest of Mount Intervention --

Counterfactuals: mining worlds that could have been --

Mediation: the search for a mechanism --

Big data, artificial intelligence, and the big questions.