Causation and explanation [electronic resource] / edited by Joseph Keim Campbell, Michael O'Rourke, and Harry Silverstein
- Published
- Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, c2007.
- Physical Description
- xviii, 315 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
- Additional Creators
- Campbell, Joseph Keim, 1958-, O'Rourke, Michael, 1963-, and Silverstein, Harry, 1942-
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- 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.
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- ISBN
- 9780262033633 (hardcover : alk. paper)
0262033631 (hardcover : alk. paper)
9780262532907 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0262532905 (pbk. : alk. paper) - Note
- "A Bradford book."
- Bibliography Note
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
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