Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Halpern, Joseph Y.
• Pearl, Judea

Titel

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

Ist Teil von

• The British journal for the philosophy of science, 2005-12, Vol.56 (4), p.843-887

Ort / Verlag

Oxford: Oxford University Press

Erscheinungsjahr

2005

Link zum Volltext

Quelle

Oxford Journals 2020 Humanities

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• We propose a new definition of actual causes, using structural equations to model counterfactuals. We show that the definition yields a plausible and elegant account of causation that handles well examples which have caused problems for other definitions and resolves major difficulties in the traditional account. IntroductionCausal models: a review 2.1 Causal models2.2 Syntax and semanticsThe definition of causeExamplesA more refined definitionDiscussion AAppendix: Some Technical Issues A.1 The active causal processA.2 A closer look at AC2(b)A.3 Causality with infinitely many variablesA.4 Causality in nonrecursive models