Causes and Explanations: A Structural-Model Approach
Joseph Yehuda Halpern, Judea Pearl · eScholarship (California Digital Library) · 2000
We propose a new definition of actual causes, using structural equations to model counterfactuals. We show that the definition yields a plausible and elegant account of causation that handles well examples which have caused problems for other definitions and resolves major difficulties in the traditional account. 1