Causation and explanation

Corporate Author: ebrary, Inc.
Other Authors: O'Rourke, Michael,
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, c2007.
Series:Topics in contemporary philosophy
Subjects:
Online Access:http://site.ebrary.com/lib/ucy/Doc?id=10190482
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300 |a xviii, 315 p. :  |b ill. 
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500 |a "A Bradford book." 
504 |a Includes bibliographical references and index. 
505 0 |a 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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