Preemption in Singular Causation Judgments: A Computational Model

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Topics in Cognitive Science 10 (1):242-257 (2018)
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The authors challenge the reigning “causal power framework” as an explanation for whether a particular outcome was actually caused by a specific potential cause. They test a new measure of causal attribution in two experiments by embedding the measure within the Structure Induction model of Singular Causation (SISC, Stephan & Waldmann, 2016).

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