Causation and explanation [electronic resource] / edited by Joseph Keim Campbell, Michael O'Rourke, and Harry Silverstein.

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors:	Campbell, Joseph Keim, 1958- O'Rourke, Michael, 1963- Silverstein, Harry, 1942-
Language:	English
Published:	Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, c2007.
Subjects:	Causation. Explanation.
Online Access:	ProQuest Ebook Central: 2007 (Ebook Central @ Proquest) ProQuest Ebook Central - Academic Complete: 2007 (Ebook Central @ Proquest) MIT Press Direct to Open Backfile Complete Monographs: 2007 (Digital Object Identifier Permalink) EBSCO eBooks: 2007 (EBSCO) eBook Academic Collection (EBSCOhost) – North America: 2007 (EBSCO) eBook Public Library Collection (EBSCOhost) – North America: 2007 (EBSCO)
Format:	Electronic eBook

Contents:

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.