Causation in the law

By A. Honoré, J. Gardner. 1959

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"Wrong side of the tracks": Big Data and Protected Categories (2014, background): “ning coarse-graining properties in often uninterpretable ways. “Why the computer said what it did”—why one candidate was rat ed higher than another, for 2See, for example, the essay [3] or the review [4], and references therein, for the role of causality in legal reasoning; more broadly, a key reaso”
From covariation to causation: A causal power theory. (1997, background): “For example, philosophers (Hart & Honore, 1959/1985; Mackie, 1974; Mill, 1843/1973) have noted that when one considers all events related to an effect (eg, a forest fire), one finds that the effect is almost invariably produced by multiple factors that are individually necessary and jointly sufficie”
Propensities and counterfactuals: The loser that almost won (1990, background): “Hart and Honore (1959) proposed that a cause is found by “tracing back” from the effect to the nearest plausible candidate in the causal chain.”