Bradley, Richard and Dietrich, Franz and List, Christian (2014) Aggregating Causal Judgments. Philosophy of Science, 81 (4). pp. 491-515.
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Abstract
Decision making typically requires judgments about causal relations: we need to know the causal effects of our actions and the causal relevance of various environmental factors. We investigate how several individuals’ causal judgments can be aggregated into collective causal judgments. First, we consider the aggregation of causal judgments via the aggregation of probabilistic judgments and identify the limitations of this approach. We then explore the possibility of aggregating causal judgments independently of probabilistic ones. Formally, we introduce the problem of causal-network aggregation. Finally, we revisit the aggregation of probabilistic judgments when this is constrained by prior aggregation of qualitative causal judgments.
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| Keywords: | Judgment aggregation, causality, causation, Bayesian networks, graph aggregation, probabilistic opinion pooling, Markov conditions, decision making | ||||||||||||
| Subjects: | General Issues > Causation General Issues > Decision Theory Specific Sciences > Probability/Statistics |
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| Depositing User: | Christian List | ||||||||||||
| Date Deposited: | 02 Aug 2016 17:36 | ||||||||||||
| Last Modified: | 06 Aug 2016 21:06 | ||||||||||||
| Item ID: | 11364 | ||||||||||||
| Journal or Publication Title: | Philosophy of Science | ||||||||||||
| Official URL: | http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1086/678044 | ||||||||||||
| DOI or Unique Handle: | 10.1086/678044 | ||||||||||||
| Subjects: | General Issues > Causation General Issues > Decision Theory Specific Sciences > Probability/Statistics |
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| Date: | October 2014 | ||||||||||||
| Page Range: | pp. 491-515 | ||||||||||||
| Volume: | 81 | ||||||||||||
| Number: | 4 | ||||||||||||
| URI: | https://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/id/eprint/11364 |
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