The Oxford handbook of causal reasoning / edited by Michael R. Waldmann.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Waldmann, Michael, editor.

Series:

Oxford library of psychology

Oxford handbooks online

Oxford handbooks in psychology.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Reasoning (Psychology).

Causation.

Physical Description:

1 online resource.

Other Title:

Causal reasoning

Place of Publication:

New York : Oxford University Press, 2017.

System Details:

text file

Summary:

Causal reasoning is one of our most central cognitive competencies, enabling us to adapt to our world. Causal knowledge allows us to predict future events, or diagnose the causes of observed facts. We plan actions and solve problems using knowledge about cause-effect relations. Without our ability to discover and empirically test causal theories, we would not have made progress in various empirical sciences. The handbook brings together the leading researchers in the field of causal reasoning and offers state-of-the-art presentations of theories and research. It provides introductions of competing theories of causal reasoning, and discusses its role in various cognitive functions and domains. The final section presents research from neighboring fields.

Contents:

General Introduction / Michael R. Waldmann

The acquisition and use of causal stucture learning / Ben Rottman

Causal Mechanisms / Woo-kyoung Ahn, Sam Johnson

Force dynamics and causation / Phil Wolff

Pseudocontingencies / Klaus Fiedler, Florian Kutzner

Singular causation / David Danks

Cognitive neuroscience of causal reasoning / Aron K. Barbey, Joachim T. Operskalski

Visual impressions of causality / Peter White

Goal-directed actions / Bernhard Hommel

Planning and control / Magda Osman

Associative Accounts of Causal Cognition / Mike Le Pelley, Tom Beesley, Oren Griffiths

Reinforcement learning and causal models / Samuel J. Gershman

Categories as Causal Models: Inductions / Bob Rehder

Causal Explanation / Tania Lombrozo, Nadya Vasilyeva

Diagnostic reasoning / Björn Meder, Ralf Mayrhofer

Inferring causal relations by analogy / Keith J. Holyoak, Heeseung Lee

Causal Argument / Ulrike Hahn, Roland Bluhm, Frank Zenker

Causal decision making / York Hagmayer, Philip Fernbach

Intuitive theories / Joshua B. Tenenbaum, Tobias Gerstenberg

Space, time, and causality / Marc J. Buehner

Causation and the probability of causal conditionals / David Over

Causation in legal and moral reasoning / David Lagnado, Tobias Gerstenberg

Role of causal knowledge in reasoning about mental disorders / Woo-kyoung Ahn, Nancy Kim, Matthew S. Lebowitz

Causation and causal reasoning in natural language / Oliver Bott, Torgrim Solstad

Social attribution and explanation / Denis Hilton

Causal cognition and culture / Andrea Bender, Sieghard Beller, Douglas L. Medin

Causal reasoning in nonhuman animals / Julia Fischer, Christian Schloegl

Formalizing prior knowledge in causal induction / Thomas L. Griffiths

Categories as Causal Models: Categorization / Bob Rehder

Mental models and causation / Phil N. Johnson-Laird, Sunny Khemlani

The development of causal reasoning / Elizabeth Bonawitz, Paul Muentener

Causal models and conditional reasoning / Mike Oaksford, Nick Chater

Rules of causal judgment: mapping statistical information onto causal beliefs / José Perales, Andrés Catena, Antonio Cándido, Antonio Maldonado

The inferential reasoning theory of causal learning: Towards a multi-process propositional account / Tom Beckers, Jan De Houwer, Yannick Boddez

Causal invariance as an essential constraint for creating a causal representation of the world: Generalizing the invariance of causal power / Patricia W. Cheng, Hongjing Lu.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Print version :

ISBN:

9780190662745

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