Causation and Explanation

Name: Causation and Explanation
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ISBN: 9780262033633

ISBN-10: 0262033631

ISBN-13: 9780262033633

Edition: 2007

Authors: Joseph Keim Campbell, Michael O'Rourke, Harry S. Silverstein, Nancy Cartwright, Patricia W. Cheng

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This collection of original essays on the topics of causation and explanation offers readers a state-of-the-art view of current work in these areas. The book is notable for its interdisciplinary character, and the essays, by distinguished authors and important rising scholars, will be of interest to a wide readership, including philosophers, computer scientists, and economists. Students and scholars alike will find the book valuable for its wide-ranging treatment of two difficult philosophical topics. The volume focuses first on the development of theories of causation and explanation, and then on the application of those theories. Theoretical discussions include Patrick Suppes's…

Book details

List price: $90.00
Copyright year: 2007
Publisher: MIT Press
Publication date: 8/17/2007
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 480
Size: 5.75" wide x 9.50" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 1.188
Language: English

Joseph Keim Campbell is Professor in the Department of Philosophy at Washington State University.

Harry S. Silverstein is Professor Emeritus in the Department of Philosophy at Washington State University, and coeditor of three previous volumes in the Topics in Contemporary Philosophy series, Causation and Explanation (2007), Knowledge and Skepticism (2010), and Time and Identity (2010), all published by the MIT Press.



Acknowledgments


Introduction




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 Fraassen's 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



Index