Causation and explanation [electronic resource] / edited by Joseph Keim Campbell, Michael O'Rourke, and Harry Silverstein.

Contributor(s): Material type: BookBookSeries: Topics in contemporary philosophyPublication details: Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, c2007.Description: xviii, 315 p. : illSubject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 122 22
LOC classification:
  • BD541 .C193 2007eb
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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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"A Bradford book."

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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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