Professor Judea Pearl’s tweets

Glad you asked. I have been in this business for 3 decades and have not found anything clearer, more rigorous or friendlier than Chapter 4 of Primer. Here is a free link https://t.co/Sf5yw328zl. Enjoy, and don't let the mystics tell you counterfacuals are "hard". https://t.co/I9fwLZD2ql

— Judea Pearl (@yudapearl) June 3, 2020

@19Naranjito82
Hi again. Can you recommend me some papers on the theoretical link between causality and counterfactuals?

@yudapearl

Glad you asked. I have been in this business for 3 decades and have not found anything clearer, more rigorous or friendlier than Chapter 4 of Primer. Here is a free link https://ucla.in/2G2rWBv. Enjoy, and don’t let the mystics tell you counterfacuals are “hard”.

@Bertrand_allen2

Not so fast…
counterfactual theories of causation: https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/causation-counterfactual/

@yudapearl

I disagree with Hitchcock (author of https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/causation-counterfactual/), counterfactuals come first, causation second. The former is consensual, the latter debatable.