Causes and explanations: A structural-model approach. Part I: Causes

British Journal for the Philosophy of Science 56 (4):843-887 (2005)
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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.

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Joseph Y. Halpern
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