arXiv AI

A Counterfactual Cause in Situation Calculus

arXiv:2501. 06857v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Perhaps the most popular modern formulation of actual causality is the HP account by Halpern and Pearl.

arXiv AI
Jun 24

Difference-Making without Making a Difference

arXiv:2606. 24832v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Over a series of seven papers, Andreas & G\"unther have introduced seven definitions of actual causation and have classified them as belonging to three different, competing, types of accounts: factual difference-making, counterfactual difference-making, and regularity-based.

By Sander Beckers
Hugging Face Trending Papers
Jul 14

Solution of the Hempel's statistical ambiguity problem and Causal AI

This paper addresses Carl Hempel's longstanding problem of statistical ambiguity in inductive-statistical inference, in which contradictory predictions are derived from statistical laws. To avoid such predictions, Carl Hempel proposed the Requirement of Maximal Specificity (RMS) for the statistical laws used in the inference.

Hugging Face Trending Papers
Jun 23

Infinitesimal Causality

This paper introduces a categorical account of infinitesimal causality in Frobenius Markov categories equipped with tangent-bundle semantics. IDC captures the infinitesimal layer in which interventions act as tangent deformations of copy/discard structure.