Title
Inference of Intention and Permissibility in Moral Decision Making.
Abstract
The actions of a rational agent reveal information about its mental states. These inferred mental states, particularly the agent’s intentions, play an important role in the evaluation of moral permissibility. While previous computational models have shown that beliefs and desires can be inferred from behavior under the assumption of rational action they have critically lacked a third mental state, intentions. In this work, we develop a novel formalism for intentions and show how they can be inferred as counterfactual contrasts over influence diagrams. This model is used to quantitatively explain judgments about intention and moral permissibility in classic and novel trolley problems.
Year
Venue
Field
2015
CogSci
Social psychology,Rational agent,Inference,Psychology,Cognitive psychology,Counterfactual thinking,Influence diagram,Computational model,Formalism (philosophy),Mental state
DocType
Citations 
PageRank 
Conference
3
0.70
References 
Authors
3
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Max Kleiman-Weiner16613.59
Tobias Gerstenberg25414.89
Sydney Levine330.70
Joshua B. Tenenbaum44445437.33