Research Catalog

Title

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

Publication

Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, c2007.

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Additional Authors

• Campbell, Joseph Keim, 1958-
• O'Rourke, Michael, 1963-
• Silverstein, Harry, 1942-

Description

xviii, 315 p. : ill.; 23 cm.

Series Statement

Topics in contemporary philosophy

Subject

• Causation
• Explanation

Note

• "A Bradford book."

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

Call Number

JSE 07-1185

ISBN

• 9780262033633 (hardcover : alk. paper)
• 0262033631 (hardcover : alk. paper)
• 9780262532907 (pbk. : alk. paper)
• 0262532905 (pbk. : alk. paper)

LCCN

2006033531

OCLC

73926881

Title

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

Imprint

Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, c2007.

Series

Topics in contemporary philosophy

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Table of contents only

Added Author

Campbell, Joseph Keim, 1958-

O'Rourke, Michael, 1963-

Silverstein, Harry, 1942-

Research Call Number

JSE 07-1185