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Autore |
Sloman Steven A |
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Titolo |
Causal models [[electronic resource] ] : how people think about the world and its alternatives / / Steven Sloman |
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Pubbl/distr/stampa |
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Oxford ; ; New York, : Oxford University Press, 2005 |
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ISBN |
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0-19-988474-9 |
0-19-987095-0 |
1-280-42861-9 |
1-60256-568-6 |
9786610428618 |
0-19-804037-7 |
1-299-38582-6 |
0-19-972840-2 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (225 p.) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Psychology - Mathematical models |
Causation |
Electronic books. |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 191-200) and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Agency and the role of causation in mental life -- The information is in the invariants -- What is a cause? -- Causal models -- Observation versus action -- Reasoning about causation -- Decision making via causal consequences -- The psychology of judgment : causality is pervasive -- Causality and conceptual structure -- Categorical induction -- Locating causal structure in language -- Causal learning -- Causation in the mind. |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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Sloman offers a conceptual introduction to key mathematical ideas, focusing on the intuitions rather than the theorems. He tries to show why the ideas are important to understanding how people explain things, & why it is central to human action to think not only about the world as it is, but also about the world as it could be. |
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