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

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Superior document:Topics in contemporary philosophy
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Year of Publication:2007
Language:English
Series:Topics in contemporary philosophy.
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Physical Description:xviii, 315 p. :; ill.
Notes:"A Bradford book."
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Table of 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.