Actual Causality

• Main Author: Halpern, Joseph Y. (auth)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Cambridge The MIT Press 2016
• Series: The MIT Press
• Subjects: Popular philosophy; Machine learning; Functional analysis; probabilities; probability; causation; causality; causal modeling; causal model; model; complexity; axiomization; responsibility; blame; explanation; definitions; network; cause; computation; dependence; endogenous variable; variable; intervention; normality; ordering; structural equations; witness; typicality
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A new approach for defining causality and such related notions as degree of responsibility, degrees of blame, and causal explanation. Causality plays a central role in the way people structure the world; we constantly seek causal explanations for our observations. But what does it even mean that an...