Responsibility and blame: a structural-model approach
<|reference_start|>Responsibility and blame: a structural-model approach: Causality is typically treated an all-or-nothing concept; either A is a cause of B or it is not. We extend the definition of causality introduced by Halpern and Pearl [2001] to take into account the degree of responsibility of A for B. For example, if someone wins an election 11--0, then each person who votes for him is less responsible for the victory than if he had won 6--5. We then define a notion of degree of blame, which takes into account an agent's epistemic state. Roughly speaking, the degree of blame of A for B is the expected degree of responsibility of A for B, taken over the epistemic state of an agent.<|reference_end|>
@article{chockler2003responsibility,
    title={Responsibility and blame: a structural-model approach},
    author={Hana Chockler and Joseph Y. Halpern},
    journal={arXiv preprint arXiv:cs/0312038},
    year={2003},
    archivePrefix={arXiv},
    eprint={cs/0312038},
    primaryClass={cs.AI cs.LO}
}