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.