Teleological Inference in Structural Causal Models via Intentional Interventions

ArXi:2603.18968v1 Announce Type: new Structural causal models (SCMs) were conceived to formulate and answer causal questions. This paper shows that SCMs can also be used to formulate and answer teleological questions, concerning the intentions of a state-aware, goal-directed agent intervening in a causal system. We review limitations of previous approaches to modeling such agents, and then