Causation and explanation

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Autor Corporativo: ebrary, Inc
Outros autores: Campbell, Joseph Keim, 1958-, O'Rourke, Michael, 1963-, Silverstein, Harry, 1942-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:inglés
Publicado: Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, c2007.
Series:Topics in contemporary philosophy.
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Table of 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.