Similarity Orders from Causal Equations

Marti, Johannes; Pinosio, Riccardo

doi:10.1007/978-3-319-11558-0_35

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Order By: Relevance

“…The latter (Briggs) changes the functions for the intervened variables (producing S− → V = − → v ); the former (ours) preserves the original causal information (the 'old' S). 11 There is a second difference, concerning the way the new assignment is defined. In the strict interventionist case, the values of all non-intervened variables are recalculated according to the (recall: new) causal rules.…”

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A Logical and Empirical Study of Right-Nested Counterfactuals

Schulz

Smets

Velázquez–Quesada

et al. 2019

Logic, Rationality, and Interaction

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The paper focuses on a recent challenge brought forward against the interventionist approach to the meaning of counterfactual conditionals. According to this objection, interventionism cannot in general account for the interpretation of right-nested counterfactuals, the problem being its strict interventionism. We will report on the results of an empirical study supporting the objection, and we will extend the well-known logic of actual causality with a new operator expressing an alternative notion of intervention that does not suffer from the problem (and thus can account for some critical examples). The core idea of the alternative approach is a new notion of intervention, which operates on the evaluation of the variables in a causal model, and not on their functional dependencies. Our result provides new insights into the logical analysis of causal reasoning.

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Section: The Non-strict-interventionmentioning

confidence: 99%

A Logical and Empirical Study of Right-Nested Counterfactuals

Schulz

Smets

Velázquez–Quesada

et al. 2019

Logic, Rationality, and Interaction

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“…First of all, we are working here with event structures. But given that the event structures are ordered by causal dependence, we can use this order structure to extend the definitions given in Marti & Pinosio 2014 to the present context. However, there is also a more substantial change that is necessary.…”

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“…The interventionist approach to counterfactuals as defined in Pearl 2000Pearl , 2013 is not a similarity approach to the meaning of counterfactual conditionals, but arrives at the relevant antecedent worlds by construction: the operation of intervention is applied to the actual world and transforms it into the relevant worlds that makes the antecedent true. However, in Marti & Pinosio 2014 it has been shown that for recursive structural models this construction process can be translated into a similarity order over worlds. This order can take over the role of the ordering source in the standard Kratzerian approach.…”

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Fake Perfect in X-marked Conditionals

Schulz¹

2017

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The topic of this paper is a problem concerning the interpretation of tense in conditionals: Fake Tense. Fake tense refers to the observation that in English subjunctive conditionals the simple past, and sometimes also the past perfect, appear not to be interpreted as semantic past tense or past perfect. We will focus in particular on the function of the perfect in conditionals with fake past perfect. Two different lines of approach to fake tense can be distinguished in the literature: past-as-modal approaches (PaM) claim that the past tense markers receive in these contexts a modal interpretation; past-as-past approaches (PaP) propose that the past still receives a temporal interpretation, though it contributes in an unexpected way to the meaning of the sentence. We will first spell out a PaM approach based on an idea in Schulz 2014 and then argue that this approach is not convincing. This will be partly done based on two empirical studies concerning the form of generic counterfactuals/counterpossibles. We will then propose a PaP approach to the perfect in conditionals with fake past perfect. This approach will build on an interventionist account of counterfactuals using causal structural models (Pearl 2000(Pearl , 2013.

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