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Towards Formal Definitions of Blameworthiness, Intention, and Moral Responsibility

Authors :
Halpern, Joseph Y.
Kleiman-Weiner, Max
Publication Year :
2018

Abstract

We provide formal definitions of degree of blameworthiness and intention relative to an epistemic state (a probability over causal models and a utility function on outcomes). These, together with a definition of actual causality, provide the key ingredients for moral responsibility judgments. We show that these definitions give insight into commonsense intuitions in a variety of puzzling cases from the literature.<br />Comment: Appears in AAAI-18

Details

Database :
arXiv
Publication Type :
Report
Accession number :
edsarx.1810.05903
Document Type :
Working Paper