Are goals or preconditions better explanations? It depends on the question
By John McClure, Denis J. Hilton. 1998
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- J. Cowan
- Lucyna Ishida
- Robbie M. Sutton
- Marc S. Wilson
- Denis J. Hilton
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, methodology): “The abnormal conditions model has been backed up by subsequent experimental studies, such as those by McClure and Hilton [125], McClure et al. [126], and Hilton et al. [76], and more recently, Samland and Waldmann [161], who show that a variety of non-statistical measures are valid foils.”
- When People Explain Difficult Actions, is the Causal Question How or Why? (2001, methodology): “The explanations were coded into goals and preconditions by two coders, using the definitions of goals and preconditions made by McClure and Hilton (1998).”
- How People Explain Action (and Autonomous Intelligent Systems Should Too) (2017, background): “For further discussion of these modes of explanation, see (Malle 2011; Malle et al. 2000; McClure and Hilton 1998); here we focus on the two contrasting modes of reason explanations for intentions/intentional actions and cause explanations for unintentional events (see Figure 1).”
- Distinguishing the effects of beliefs and preconditions: The folk psychology of goals and actions (2005, result): “…than explanations, but they are consistent with research showing that explanations of common actions tend to cite goals more than preconditions (e.g. Johnson et al., 1994; Malle, 1999; Malle & Knobe, 1997; Malle et al., 2000; McClure, 2002; McClure & Hilton, 1997, 1998; Sutton & McClure, 2001).”