Causes and Explanations: A Structural-Model Approach --- Part 1: Causes

01/10/2013
by   Joseph Y. Halpern, et al.
0

We propose a new definition of actual causes, using structural equations to model counterfactuals.We show that the definitions yield a plausible and elegant account ofcausation that handles well examples which have caused problems forother definitions and resolves major difficulties in the traditionalaccount. In a companion paper, we show how the definition of causality can beused to give an elegant definition of (causal) explanation.

READ FULL TEXT

page 1

page 2

page 3

page 4

page 5

page 7

page 8

page 9

research
08/20/2002

Causes and Explanations: A Structural-Model Approach. Part II: Explanations

We propose new definitions of (causal) explanation, using structural equ...
research
07/11/2023

Reducing Causality to Functions with Structural Models

The precise definition of causality is currently an open problem in phil...
research
12/12/2012

Causes and Explanations in the Structural-Model Approach: Tractable Cases

In this paper, we continue our research on the algorithmic aspects of Ha...
research
07/20/2023

Modifications of the Miller definition of contrastive (counterfactual) explanations

Miller recently proposed a definition of contrastive (counterfactual) ex...
research
02/03/2021

Causal Sufficiency and Actual Causation

Pearl opened the door to formally defining actual causation using causal...
research
06/06/2023

Embracing Background Knowledge in the Analysis of Actual Causality: An Answer Set Programming Approach

This paper presents a rich knowledge representation language aimed at fo...
research
03/06/2013

Intercausal Reasoning with Uninstantiated Ancestor Nodes

Intercausal reasoning is a common inference pattern involving probabilis...

Please sign up or login with your details

Forgot password? Click here to reset