Actual Causality
| Author | : Joseph Y. Halpern |
| Publisher | : MIT Press |
| Total Pages | : 240 |
| Release | : 2016-08-12 |
| ISBN-10 | : 9780262035026 |
| ISBN-13 | : 0262035022 |
| Rating | : 4/5 (022 Downloads) |
Book Synopsis Actual Causality by : Joseph Y. Halpern
Download or read book Actual Causality written by Joseph Y. Halpern and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2016-08-12 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores actual causality, and such related notions as degree of responsibility, degree of blame, and causal explanation. The goal is to arrive at a definition of causality that matches our natural language usage and is helpful, for example, to a jury deciding a legal case, a programmer looking for the line of code that cause some software to fail, or an economist trying to determine whether austerity caused a subsequent depression.
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