The papers collected here focus on probabilistic causality, addressing topics such as the search for causal mechanisms, epistemic and metaphysical views of causality, Bayesian nets and causal dependence, and causation in the special sciences. Some papers stress the statistical analysis of probabilistic data; others address causal issues in physics, with an emphasis on physical processes that are also probabilistic―i.e., stochastic processes.
Maria Carla Galavotti is professor of the philosophy of science at the University of Bologna.Patrick Suppes is the Lucie Stern Professor of Philosophy, Emeritus at Stanford University.Domenico Constantini is professor of the theory of probability at the University of Bologna.