Probabilistic Causality in Quantum Mechanics

Abstract

I want to begin by expressing my pleasure at being able to contribute to a symposium in honor of Jack Good. We have known each other more years now than I care to remember. Over this long period I have learned much from his papers and from conversations about many different but related subjects. To make the point more precise for the present talk, about two decades ago when I became seriously interested in probabilistic causality and committed myself to developing a series of lectures on the subject, which were given in the summer of 1966 in Vaasa, Finland, among the few serious publications on the topic I found were Jack’s important earlier papers (Good, 1961/1962). Recently I have commented on some of our points of disagreement about probabilistic causality (Suppes, 1988). On the other hand, our areas of agreement about probabilistic causality certainly exceed the filigree of differences.