Actual Causality

by Joseph Y. Halpern

Book Overview

A new approach for defining causality and such related notions as degree of responsibility, degrees of blame, and causal explanation.

Causality plays a central role in the way people structure the world; we constantly seek causal explanations for our observations. But what does it even mean that an event C "actually caused" event E? The problem of defining actual causation goes beyond mere philosophical speculation. For example,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0262537133
• ISBN13: 9780262537131
• Release Date: February 2019
• Publisher: MIT Press
• Length: 239 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.5" x 8.7"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher