Intervention

Key question

What makes one thing cause another?

Check your understanding

Find an example, an application and a limit. Explain the concept without using its name, then compare your explanation with a primary source.

Follow a learning route

• What makes one thing cause another?

  Move from Hume’s problem to counterfactuals, interventions and causal models, keeping inference distinct from metaphysics.

Reading connections

• An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding

  David Hume

• Causation

  David Lewis

• Causality

  Judea Pearl

• The Book of Why

  Judea Pearl · Dana Mackenzie

• Causal Inference: What If

  Hernán · Robins