Actual Causality

A new approach for defining causality and such related notions as degree of responsibility, degrees of blame, and causal explanation.

Causality plays a central role in the way people structure the world; we constantly seek causal explanations for our observations. But what does it even mean that an event C “actually caused” event E? The problem of defining actual causation goes beyond mere philosophical speculation. For example, in many legal arguments, it is precisely what needs to b…