Causal Inquiry Dialogue
Causal Inquiry Dialogue Skip to main content Contents Introduction and motivation Existing causal argumentation schemes Bradford Hill and modern causal reasoning The Causal Inquiry Dialogue Complete dialogue-move reference Technical foundation: causal estimands Technical foundation: assumptions Concluding synthesis Key References & Suggested Readings 1. Introduction and motivation While writing the "Theory of Rationality" post, I revisited the pragma-dialectical rules for critical discussion and Waltons extended dialogue types; then suddenly got an idea. Walton's extensions could possibly be extended further into sub-types. Why not extend this framework into a dialogue exclusively concerned with the nuances and features of causal inquiry? This interests me in particular because I'm quite familiar and interested in empirical methods used to identify causal effects in data. While in Economics graduate school, I distinctly recall most applied microeconom...