A Short History of Causation

Or "A Few Judeas of Wisdom"

I’ve been immersed again recently in Judea Pearl’s The Book of Why, as electrifying as it was when I last read it, and reading it inspired me to consider writing a Substack article covering it, that would function slightly more broadly as a history of the science of causation.

In some respects, this must seem like the most obviously Substackian use of a…