foundations of computational agents
Pearl and Mackenzie [2018] provide a readable overview of causality and its historical context. For a more technical description, see Pearl [2009], Spirtes et al. [2001] and Veitch and D’Amour [2023]. Geffner et al. [2022] overview the work of Judea Pearl, one of the pioneers of causality in AI, and include many papers on causality.