Causes and Explanations¶
Halpern, J. Y., & Pearl, J. (2005). Causes and Explanations: A Structural-Model Approach. Part I: Causes. British Journal for the Philosophy of Science, 56(4), 843-887.
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Primes¶
- Causality
- (6) Screening-off and confounding: genetic factors confound the smoking-cancer link; conditioning on tar mediates the effect.
This sourceStructural-equation definition of actual (token) causation handling preemption and overdetermination; narrows a sprawling causal field to selected actual causes.
- (6) Screening-off and confounding: genetic factors confound the smoking-cancer link; conditioning on tar mediates the effect.
- Responsibility Attribution
- Where bare causation answers "what produced this?", attribution answers the further question "who or what is to be held to account, and in what proportion?" — converting a sprawling causal history into a bounded ledger of credit and blame.
This sourceCounterfactual structural-model account of actual-cause selection: formalizes how a sprawling causal field is narrowed to selected causes (842, 852), the truncation of the causal regress (843), the separation of causal contribution from the accountability judgment built atop it (844), and causation without responsibility (846).
- Where bare causation answers "what produced this?", attribution answers the further question "who or what is to be held to account, and in what proportion?" — converting a sprawling causal history into a bounded ledger of credit and blame.
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