Wins above replacement: Responsibility attributions as counterfactual replacements

Proceedings of the 36th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, CogSci 2014

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages 2263-2268

  Gerstenberg, Tobias ^a   Ullman, Tomer D ^a   Kleiman Weiner, Max ^a   Lagnado, David A ^b   Tenenbaum, Joshua B ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

attribution; Bayesian inference; counterfactuals; responsibility; theory of mind

Indexed keywords

BAYESIAN NETWORKS;

ATTRIBUTION; BAYESIAN INFERENCE; COUNTERFACTUALS; REPLACEMENT MODELS; RESPONSIBILITY; THEORY OF MINDS;

INFERENCE ENGINES;

EID: 85139221769     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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