| Record Type: |
Electronic resources
: Monograph/item
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| Title/Author: |
Causation and explanation/ edited by Joseph Keim Campbell, Michael O'Rourke, and Harry Silverstein. |
| other author: |
Campbell, Joseph Keim, |
| Published: |
Cambridge, Mass. :MIT Press, : c2007., |
| Description: |
xviii, 315 p. :ill. ;23 cm. |
| Notes: |
"A Bradford book." |
| Series: |
Topics in contemporary philosophy |
| [NT 15003449]: |
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. |
| Subject: |
Causation. - |
| Online resource: |
https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=190967An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click for information |
| ISBN: |
1429492384 (electronic bk.) |