UID:
almafu_9959231039302883
Format:
1 online resource (335 p.)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
1-282-09908-6
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9786612099083
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0-262-26976-7
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1-4294-9238-4
Series Statement:
Topics in contemporary philosophy
Content:
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.
Note:
"A Bradford book."
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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.
,
English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-262-03363-1
Language:
English
