Towards A Logical Account of Epistemic Causality

Reasoning about observed effects and their causes is important in multi-agent contexts. While there has been much work on causality from an objective standpoint, causality from the point of view of some particular agent has received much less attention. In this paper, we address this issue by incorp...

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Published inElectronic proceedings in theoretical computer science Vol. 308; no. Proc. CREST 2019; pp. 1 - 16
Main Authors Khan, Shakil M., Soutchanski, Mikhail
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Open Publishing Association 31.10.2019
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Summary:Reasoning about observed effects and their causes is important in multi-agent contexts. While there has been much work on causality from an objective standpoint, causality from the point of view of some particular agent has received much less attention. In this paper, we address this issue by incorporating an epistemic dimension to an existing formal model of causality. We define what it means for an agent to know the causes of an effect. Then using a counterexample, we prove that epistemic causality is a different notion from its objective counterpart.
ISSN:2075-2180
2075-2180
DOI:10.4204/EPTCS.308.1