Causality

Causality is the ntuitive notion that some events happening "result" in other events happening. What's going on with that? What does it mean for A to cause B? How do we figure out the causal relationship between things?

See also

• Free will
• Teleology
• Beliefs require observations

Notable Posts

• Fake Causality
• Timeless Causality and Timeless Control (from The Quantum Physics Sequence)
• Causality and Moral Responsibility
• Causality: A chapter by chapter review

External links

• Philip Dawid's explication of Pearl's model, and two ways of thinking about nonrandom sampling by Philip Dawid and Andrew Gelman - Causal inference as "the task of using data collected under one regime to infer about the properties of another".
• Resolving disputes between J. Pearl and D. Rubin on causal inference and More on Pearl's and Rubin's frameworks for causal inference by Andrew Gelman
• If correlation doesn't imply causation, then what does? by Michael Nielsen
• Correlation is Evidence of Causation by Kim Øyhus
• Judea Pearls's works: Causality: Models Reasoning, and Inference [1], Book of Why, A Primer on Causality

References

1. Judea Pearl (2000). Causality: Models, Reasoning, and Inference. Cambridge University Press.