Responsibility and Blame: A Structural-Model Approach

• DOI: 10.1613/jair.1391
• Publication Date: 2018-07-12T13:33:25Z
• Authors: H. Chockler; J. Y. Halpern
• Keywords: Blame; Degree (music); Causality; Nothing; Complement

Causality is typically treated an all-or-nothing concept; either A a cause of B or it not. We extend the definition causality introduced by Halpern and Pearl [2004a] to take into account degree responsibility for B. For example, if someone wins election 11-0, then each person who votes him less responsible victory than he had won 6-5. define notion blame, which takes agent's epistemic state. Roughly speaking, blame expected B, taken over state agent.