For you can't always get what you want: When preconditions are better explanations than goals
By John McClure, Denis J. Hilton. 1997
How researchers see this paper
The researchers whose trusted networks rank it highest, strongest advocate first. Every researcher gets a different order.
- John McClure
- Arch G. Woodside
- A. Boonzaier
- Tim Miller
- Denis J. Hilton
- J. Cowan
- Lucyna Ishida
- Marc S. Wilson
Citations in the corpus
- Explanation in Human-AI Systems: A Literature Meta-Review, Synopsis of Key Ideas and Publications, and Bibliography for Explainable AI (2019, neutral): “…and Gwynne, 2014a; Lombrozo, Sloman, Strevens, Trout, and Skolnick Weisberg, 2008; Malle, 1999,2004, 2011; Manicas and Secord, 1983; McClure, 2002; McClure and Hilton, 1997, 1998; McClure, Sutton, and Hilton, 2003; Malle, 1999, 2004, 2011; Rey, 2012; Royce, 1963; Sloman, 1994; Swartout, 1987;…”
- Explanation in Artificial Intelligence: Insights from the Social Sciences (2017, neutral): “However, the models of Hilton [72], Antaki and Leudar [3], and Walton [183] are all independent of language.”
- Overcoming the illusion of will and self‐fabrication: Going beyond naïve subjective personal introspection to an unconscious/conscious theory of behavior explanation (2006, background): “Moreover, enabling factor explanations should be frequent when the behavior is difficult to perform but rare when the behavior is easy to accomplish (McClure & Hilton, 1997; Malle, 1999).”
- Distinguishing the effects of beliefs and preconditions: The folk psychology of goals and actions (2005, background): “Rather, they also need to know whether the actor has the requisite preconditions (McClure & Hilton, 1997; Sutton & McClure, 2001 ).”
- When People Explain Difficult Actions, is the Causal Question How or Why? (2001, methodology): “Based on previous findings, we predicted that participants would prefer preconditions as explanations when the action was obstructed (i.e.,with poor people) and that they would prefer goals as explanations for rich people’s actions (McClure & Hilton, 1997).”
- Time to Give Up the Dogmas of Attribution (2011, unknown): “(Malle et al., 2000; McClure & Hilton, 1997).”