Probabilistic Causality in Space and Time

It is my intention in this paper to survey results and problems in the theory of probabilistic causality with an emphasis on the theory in the context of space and time. In view of this emphasis, the first section is devoted to problems of space and the second to problems of time. Here, space and time are construed in the sense of classical physics, although in some of the examples considered no real physics will enter. The third section is devoted to space-time, but the problems considered are restricted to those that arise in the framework of special relativity. Questions about probability and causality are difficult enough in this framework without considering the still more difficult case of general relativity.

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