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#1 Towards Formal Definitions of Blameworthiness, Intention, and Moral Responsibility [PDF] [Copy] [Kimi]

Authors: Joseph Halpern ; Max Kleiman-Weiner

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.