Causes and explanations: a structural-model approach: part i: causes

Authors:
Joseph Y. Halpern;Judea Pearl
Affiliations:
Cornell University, Dept. of Computer Science, Ithaca, NY;Dept. of Computer Science, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA
Venue:
UAI'01 Proceedings of the Seventeenth conference on Uncertainty in artificial intelligence
Year:
2001

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Abstract

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.