PROCEEDINGS IPMU '08
Responsibility Judgments: Steps towards a formalization
Henri Prade.
The concept of responsibility refers to
different, although related, meanings.
Judgments about responsibility, demerit
or merit may involve several facets,
such as causality, intentionality,
awareness of consequences, as well as
utility and deontic notions. The
proposed approach relies on a recent
modeling of causality ascription by
agents put in face of a sequence of
reported events, on the basis of their
own beliefs regarding the normal
course of things. The study intends to
cover situations, where something bad,
or good, happened, and the action of an
agent caused it, or could have prevented
it. Moreover, the expected consequences
of the action may have taken
place or not, the action may be costly or
beneficial to the agent, and the action
may have different deontic status. On
the basis of these different concerns, we
are interested in this paper in describing
how responsibility, merit or blame can
be attributed by agents about the
actions of other agents.
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