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

• Pubblicazione: Cambridge, Mass., : MIT Press, ©2007
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (335 p.)
• Disciplina: 122
• Soggetto topico: Causation; Explanation
• Soggetto non controllato: PHILOSOPHY/General
• Altri autori: CampbellJoseph Keim <1958-> O'RourkeMichael <1963-> SilversteinHarry <1942->
• Note generali: "A Bradford book."
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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.
• Sommario/riassunto: 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Causation and explanation
• ISBN: 1-282-09908-6; 9786612099083; 0-262-26976-7; 1-4294-9238-4
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910452296503321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Topics in contemporary philosophy.