Everything that happens has a multitude of causes, but people make causal judgments
effortlessly. How do people select one particular cause (eg, the lightning bolt that set the …

Cognitive scientists have been debating how the folk concept of intentional action works. We
suggest a simple account: people consider that an agent did X intentionally to the extent that …

How do people come to opposite causal judgments about societal problems, such as
whether a public health policy reduced COVID‐19 cases? The current research tests an …

When comparing the roles of the lightning strike and the dry climate in causing the forest fire,
one might think that the lightning strike is more of a cause than the dry climate, or one might …

In this chapter, I review some issues in the metaphysics of causation that have been widely
discussed by experimental philosophers. After I review the work investigating the effects of …

The human capacity for causal judgment has long been thought to depend on an ability to
consider counterfactual alternatives: the lightning strike caused the forest fire because had it …

Causal selection is the process whereby people decide which of several events responsible
for a realized outcome should be considered as “the cause” of that outcome. A theory of …

A hallmark of a good XAI system is explanations that users can understand and act on. In
many cases, this requires a system to offer causal or counterfactual explanations that are …

Theories of graded causation attract growing attention in the philosophical debate on
causation. An important field of application is the controversial relationship between …

Counterfactual theories propose that people's capacity for causal judgment depends on their
ability to consider alternative possibilities: The lightning strike caused the forest fire because …