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UNINA9910777770703321 |
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Titolo |
Causation and explanation / / edited by Joseph Keim Campbell, Michael O'Rourke, and Harry Silverstein |
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Cambridge, Mass., : MIT Press, ©2007 |
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ISBN |
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1-282-09908-6 |
9786612099083 |
0-262-26976-7 |
1-4294-9238-4 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (335 p.) |
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Collana |
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Topics in contemporary philosophy |
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Altri autori (Persone) |
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CampbellJoseph Keim <1958-> |
O'RourkeMichael <1963-> |
SilversteinHarry <1942-> |
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Disciplina |
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Lingua di pubblicazione |
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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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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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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. |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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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. |
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