Causal models : how people think about the world and its alternatives / / Steven Sloman

• Autore: Sloman Steven A.
• Pubblicazione: Oxford ; ; New York : , : Oxford University Press, , [2005]
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (xi, 212 pages) : illustrations
• Disciplina: 122
• Soggetto topico: Psychology - Mathematical models; Causation
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. 191-200) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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.
• Sommario/riassunto: 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.
• Altri titoli varianti: How people think about the world and its alternatives
• Titolo autorizzato: Causal models
• ISBN: 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
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910955467803321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II