Structural equations and causation

By Ned Hall. 2007

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Structural equations have become increasingly popular in recent years as tools for understanding causation. But standard structural equations approaches to causation face deep problems. The most philosophically interesting of these consists in their failure to incorporate a distinction between default states of an object or system, and deviations therefrom. Exploring this problem, and how to fix it, helps to illuminate the central role this distinction plays in our causal thinking.

Subfields: Artificial Intelligence, Computational Theory and Mathematics, History and Philosophy of Science

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Citations in the corpus

• Causal Responsibility and Counterfactuals (2013, background): “Various refinements to the structural approach have been suggested to address these shortcomings (e.g., Halpern & Hitchcock, 2010), but no consensus has been reached on these problem cases (Hall, 2007; Hitchcock, 2007a,b).”