Abstract How can Qualitative Comparative Analysis contribute to causal knowledge? The article's answer builds on the shift from design models that Structural Causal Model framework has compelled in probabilistic analysis of causation. From this viewpoint, refine claim a ‘treatment’ relevance as they specify ‘covariates’ make some units responsive. article shows how QCA establish configurational...

The aim of this paper is to revisit an ongoing controversy within the so called “Science Wars”; more specifically, I will address a particular topic within the “human nature” debate: the ontological and epistemological status of homosexuality. I claim that, in this particular chapter of the “Science Wars”, we are continually left in an explanatory impasse even when more data are collected, more...

We present CartoonX (Cartoon Explanation), a novel model-agnostic explanation method tailored towards image classifiers and based on the rate-distortion (RDE) framework. Natural images are roughly piece-wise smooth signals—also called cartoon-like images—and tend to be sparse in wavelet domain. is first exploit this by requiring its explanations domain, thus extracting relevant part of an inste...