成本和实际因果关系
Cost and Actual Causation
摘要:
我认为我们的实际因果关系概念的目的是为了最大限度地减少干预实践中的各种成本。实际因果关系具有非冗余充分性、连续性和异常性三个特征,这些特征对应于干预实践中的开发成本、探索成本和风险成本最小化。在此基础上,对实际因果关系进行了界定。我测试的定义,在66个因果关系的情况下,从实际的因果关系文献,并表明,这个定义的应用程序更适合直觉比其他一些因果模型为基础的定义。
英文摘要:
I propose the purpose our concept of actual causation serves is minimizing various cost in intervention practice. Actual causation has three features: nonredundant sufficiency, continuity and abnormality; these features correspond to the minimization of exploitative cost, exploratory cost and risk cost in intervention practice. Incorporating these three features, a definition of actual causation is given. I test the definition in 66 causal cases from actual causation literature and show that this definition's application fit intuition better than some other causal modelling based definitions.
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