Causes and Explanations: A Structural-Model Approach. Part II: Explanations

DOI10.1093/bjps/axi148zbMath1096.03005OpenAlexW2094837707MaRDI QIDQ5290435

Joseph Y. Halpern, Judea Pearl

Publication date: 28 April 2006

Published in: The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1093/bjps/axi148

zbMATH Keywords

counterfactualscausalitystructural equationscausal explanationactual cause

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Philosophical and critical aspects of logic and foundations (03A05)

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