Feature dependence: A method for reconstructing actual causes in engineering failure investigations.
Actual causation
Causal reasoning
Engineering failure investigations
Features
Historical reconstruction
Journal
Studies in history and philosophy of science
ISSN: 0039-3681
Titre abrégé: Stud Hist Philos Sci
Pays: England
ID NLM: 1250602
Informations de publication
Date de publication:
12 2022
12 2022
Historique:
received:
24
01
2022
revised:
30
08
2022
accepted:
12
09
2022
pubmed:
4
10
2022
medline:
25
11
2022
entrez:
3
10
2022
Statut:
ppublish
Résumé
Engineering failure investigations seek to reconstruct the actual causes of major engineering failures. The investigators need to establish the existence of certain past events and the actual causal relationships that these events bear to the failures in question. In this paper, I examine one method for reconstructing the actual causes of failure events, which I call "feature dependence". The basic idea of feature dependence is that some features of an event are informative about the features of its causes; therefore, the investigators can use the features of a known failure event to reconstruct details of its causes. I make explicit the structure of feature dependence and the evidential basis of its key premises, and show how feature dependence works in the investigation of the American Airlines Flight 191 accident.
Identifiants
pubmed: 36191531
pii: S0039-3681(22)00137-6
doi: 10.1016/j.shpsa.2022.09.005
pii:
doi:
Types de publication
Journal Article
Langues
eng
Sous-ensembles de citation
IM
Pagination
100-111Informations de copyright
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