Causes and Explanations: A Structural-Model Approach --- Part 1: Causes
arXiv:1301.2275
Abstract
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.
Appears in Proceedings of the Seventeenth Conference on Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence (UAI2001), later extended version is arXiv:cs/0011012
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