Leading scholars discuss the development and application of theories of causation and explanation, offering a state-of-the-art view of current work on these two topics.
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Leading scholars discuss the development and application of theories of causation and explanation, offering a state-of-the-art view of current work on these two topics.
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Minor rubbing. A small ink mark to top page-edge. VG. 24x15cm, xviii, 315 pp. 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.
