Timeline for Has there been any mathematical study of causality?
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| Mar 9, 2023 at 5:21 | vote | accept | XL _At_Here_There | ||
| Sep 7, 2022 at 0:37 | vote | accept | XL _At_Here_There | ||
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| Apr 27, 2022 at 0:30 | comment | added | XL _At_Here_There | @TimothyChow, maybe I have not clearly expressed my intuition. | |
| Apr 27, 2022 at 0:29 | comment | added | XL _At_Here_There | @JosephO'Rourke, I do not think those physicists are correct. collapse of quantum state and time are not clear ideas, it is too early to say that causality has to be abandoned. | |
| Apr 26, 2022 at 22:40 | comment | added | Joseph O'Rourke | Interestingly, some physicists have abandoned causality. See "Quantum Mischief Rewrites the Laws of Cause and Effect" in Quanta Magazine. | |
| Apr 26, 2022 at 13:00 | comment | added | Timothy Chow | @XL_At_Here_There Your original question stated, as if it were an obvious fact, that causality is very similar to inference. But this is not at all an obvious fact. Your question was, "Why does math not care..." which is not a clear question. What does it mean to care? This does not appear to be a research-level question in mathematics. | |
| Apr 26, 2022 at 12:51 | answer | added | Timothy Chow | timeline score: 12 | |
| Apr 26, 2022 at 8:36 | comment | added | XL _At_Here_There | @TimothyChow, it is reopen now, and I can not understand why people on the site vote close the post. | |
| Apr 26, 2022 at 7:00 | history | reopened |
Timothy Chow curious math guy Paul Taylor XL _At_Here_There András Bátkai |
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| Apr 25, 2022 at 21:40 | comment | added | Paul Taylor | Drew Moshier, who seems not to be on MO, proposed using the Scott topology for the time-like coordinate to account for causality in a rather simple way. | |
| Apr 25, 2022 at 15:26 | comment | added | Wojowu | Related: mathoverflow.net/q/28224/30186 | |
| Apr 25, 2022 at 14:36 | comment | added | Timothy Chow | I've tried to rewrite the question to be more suitable for MO. If it is reopened, I plan to expand my comments above into an answer. | |
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| S Apr 25, 2022 at 14:36 | history | edited | Timothy Chow | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Apr 25, 2022 at 14:29 | history | closed |
Andrés E. Caicedo curious math guy abx Neil Strickland Benjamin Steinberg |
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| Apr 25, 2022 at 1:54 | history | edited | XL _At_Here_There | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Apr 24, 2022 at 21:59 | comment | added | Timothy Chow | For a somewhat more philosophical discussion of the relationship between causality and if/then conditionals, see the article on counterfactual theories of causation. David Lewis tried to analyze causality in terms of logical conditionals, but his proposal was controversial, and in any case, he was using conditionals based on possible world semantics (modal logic) rather than the material conditional of classical mathematical logic. | |
| Apr 24, 2022 at 21:52 | comment | added | Timothy Chow | The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy article on causal models is a good place to start reading about this topic. By the way, note that causality in modern physics is a much more subtle topic than you might think at first. So the superficial similarity between logical inference and causality is not as straightforward as it might seem at first glance. | |
| Apr 24, 2022 at 20:10 | review | Close votes | |||
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| Apr 24, 2022 at 14:10 | comment | added | XL _At_Here_There | @SamHopkins, possibly, it is closely related to physics. But I think inference and cause -effect are similar to each other. | |
| Apr 24, 2022 at 13:05 | comment | added | Sam Hopkins | Someone more informed can say more, but I believe there have been attempts to axiomatize the rules of causality. Possibly this is considered philosophy, and not math. | |
| Apr 24, 2022 at 12:59 | history | asked | XL _At_Here_There | CC BY-SA 4.0 |