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1 online resource (xviii, 315 pages) : illustrations |
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Topics in contemporary philosophy |
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Topics in contemporary philosophy.
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Explaining Four Psychological Asymmetries in Causal Reasoning : Implications of Causal Assumptions for Coherence / Patricia W. Cheng [and others] -- Causality and Computation / Patrick Suppes -- Actual Causes and Thought Experiments / Clark Glymour and Frank Wimberly -- What's Wrong with Neuron Diagrams? / Christopher Hitchcock -- Mackie Remixed / Michael Strevens -- Occasional Causes / Russell Wahl -- In Defense of Explanatory Deductivism / Bruce Glymour -- Goal-Directed Action and Teleological Explanation / Scott R. Sehon -- Van Fraassen's Dutch Book Argument against Explanationism / Dorit Ganson -- Counterfactuals in Economics : A Commentary / Nancy Cartwright -- Why Don't You Want to Be Rich? : Preference Explanation on the Basis of Causal Structure / Till Grune-Yanoff -- Decisions, Intentions, Urges, and Free Will : Why Libet Has Not Shown What He Says He Has / Alfred R. Mele -- Constitutive Overdetermination / L.A. Paul -- Ex nihilo nihil fit : Arguments New and Old for the Principle of Sufficient Reason / Alexander Pruss |
| Summary |
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 |
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PHILOSOPHY/General |
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"A Bradford book." |
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Includes bibliographical references and index |
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Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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English |
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Print version record |
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digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL |
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Causation.
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Explanation.
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PHILOSOPHY -- Epistemology.
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Causation
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Explanation
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Kausalität
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Erklärung
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Electronic book
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| Author |
Campbell, Joseph Keim, 1958-
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O'Rourke, Michael, 1963-
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Silverstein, Harry, 1942-
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| ISBN |
9780262269766 |
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0262269767 |
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9781429492386 |
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1429492384 |
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1282099086 |
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9781282099081 |
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0262033631 |
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9780262033633 |
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9786612099083 |
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6612099089 |
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