A lewisian logic of causal counterfactuals

Minds and Machines

Volumn 23, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 77-93

  Zhang, Jiji ^a  

^a LINGNAN UNIVERSITY   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Causal models; Causal reasoning; Conditional logic; Counterfactual; Intervention

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE;

CAUSAL MODEL; CAUSAL REASONING; CONDITIONAL LOGIC; COUNTERFACTUAL; INTERVENTION;

COMPUTER CIRCUITS;

EID: 84874645336     PISSN: 09246495     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11023-011-9261-z     Document Type: Article

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