Understanding counterfactuals, understanding causation : issues in philosophy and psychology / edited by Christoph Hoerl, Teresa McCormack, and Sarah R. Beck.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Hoerl, Christoph.

McCormack, Teresa.

Beck, Sarah R.

Series:

Consciousness and self-consciousness.

Consciousness and self-consciousness

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Cognitive psychology.

Psychology and philosophy.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (279 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

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:

""Cover""; ""Contents""; ""Notes on Contributors""; ""Introduction: Understanding Counterfactuals and Causation""; ""1. Psychological Studies of Causal and Counterfactual Reasoning""; ""2. The Relationship between Children�s Causal and Counterfactual Judgements""; ""3. Perceptual Causality, Counterfactuals, and Special Causal Concepts""; ""4. Counterfactual and Other Forms of Conditional Reasoning: Children Lost in the Nearest Possible World""; ""5. Multiple Developments in Counterfactual Thinking""; ""6. Domain-Specific Causal Knowledge and Children�s Reasoning about Possibility""

""7. Mental Simulation and the Nexus of Causal and Counterfactual Explanation""""8. Counterfactual Availability and Causal Judgment""; ""9. The Role of Counterfactual Dependence in Causal Judgements""; ""10. Counterfactual and Causal Thoughts about Exceptional Events""; ""11. Causation First: Why Causation is Prior to Counterfactuals""; ""12. Suppositions, Conditionals, and Causal Claims""; ""Author Index""; ""A""; ""B""; ""C""; ""D""; ""E""; ""F""; ""G""; ""H""; ""I""; ""J""; ""K""; ""L""; ""M""; ""N""; ""O""; ""P""; ""R""; ""S""; ""T""; ""U""; ""V""; ""W""; ""Y""; ""Z""; ""Subject Index""

""A""""B""; ""C""; ""D""; ""E""; ""F""; ""I""; ""J""; ""L""; ""M""; ""N""; ""O""; ""P""; ""R""; ""S""; ""T""; ""W""

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (viewed on Jan. 20, 2012).

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

ISBN:

0-19-969513-X

1-283-42272-7

9786613422729

0-19-161839-X

OCLC:

922970821