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Understanding counterfactuals, understanding causation : issues in philosophy and psychology / edited by Christoph Hoerl, Teresa McCormack, and Sarah R. Beck.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Consciousness and self-consciousness.
- Consciousness and self-consciousness
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Counterfactuals (Logic).
- Causation.
- Cognitive psychology.
- Psychology and philosophy.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (viii, 270 pages).
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Other Title:
- Issues in philosophy and psychology
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Oxford University Press, 2011.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- How are causal judgements such as 'the ice on the road caused the traffic accident' connected with judgements such as 'if there had not been any ice on the road, the traffic accident would not have happened'? This book looks at this question by uniting psychological and philosophical approaches to causation and counterfactuals.
- Contents:
- Introduction : understanding counterfactuals and causation / Christoph Hoerl, Teresa McCormack, and Sarah R. Beck
- Psychological studies of causal and counterfactual reasoning / James Woodward
- The relationship between children's causal and counterfactual judgements / Teresa McCormack, Caren Frosch, and Patrick Burns
- Perceptual causality, counterfactuals, and special causal concepts / Johannes Roessler
- Counterfactual and other forms of conditional reasoning : children lost in the nearest possible world / Josef Pemer and Eva Rafetseder
- Multiple developments in counterfactual thinking / Sarah R. Beck, Kevin J. Riggs, and Patrick Burns
- Domain-specific causal knowledge and children's reasoning about possibility / David M. Sobel
- Mental simulation and the nexus of causal and counterfactual explanation / David R. Mandel
- Counterfactual availability and causal judgment / Christopher Hitchcock
- The role of counterfactual dependence in casual judgements / Peter Menzies
- Counterfactual and causal thoughts about exceptional events / Ruth M.J. Byrne
- Causation first : why causation is prior to counterfactuals / Dorothy Edgington
- Suppositions, conditionals, and causal claims / Aidan Feeney and Simon J. Handley.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (viewed on Jan. 20, 2012).
- ISBN:
- 0-19-969513-X
- 1-283-42272-7
- 9786613422729
- 0-19-161839-X
- OCLC:
- 922970821
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