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Causation and explanation / edited by Joseph Keim Campbell, Michael O'Rourke, and Harry Silverstein.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Topics in contemporary philosophy.
- Topics in contemporary philosophy
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Causation.
- Explanation.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (335 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, c2007.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Leading scholars discuss the development and application of theories of causation and explanation, offering a state-of-the-art view of current work on these two topics.
- Contents:
- Explaining four psychological asymmetries in causal reasoning: implications of causal assumptions for coherence
- Causality and computation
- Actual causes and thought experiments
- What's wrong with neuron diagrams?
- Mackie remixed
- Occasional causes
- In defense of explanatory deductivism
- Goal-directed action and teleological explanation
- Van Fraassens Dutch book argument against explanationism
- Counterfactuals in economics: a commentary
- Why don't you want to be rich? preference explanation on the basis of causal structure
- Decisions, intentions, urges, and free will: why Libet has not shown what he says he has
- Constitutive overdetermination
- Ex nihilo nihil fit: arguments new and old for the principle of sufficient reason.
- Notes:
- OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
- "A Bradford book."
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-282-09908-6
- 9786612099083
- 0-262-26976-7
- 1-4294-9238-4
- OCLC:
- 170967978
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