3 papers
cs.AI2026
Teleological Inference in Structural Causal Models via Intentional Interventions
Dario Compagno, Fabio Massimo Zennaro
Structural causal models (SCMs) were conceived to formulate and answer causal questions. This paper shows that SCMs can also be used to formulate and answer teleological questions,…
stat.ME2024
Identifying Intended Effects with Causal Models
Dario Compagno
The aim of this paper is to extend the framework of causal inference, in particular as it has been developed by Judea Pearl, in order to model actions and identify their intended e…
stat.ME2023
Final models: A finalistic interpretation of statistical correlation
Dario Compagno
This paper aims to extend the framework of causal modelling to teleological explanations. It conceives final models as second-order models produced by interventions on first-order…