Causation and explanation
By: edited by Joseph Keim Campbell, Michael O'Rourke, and Harry Silverstein.
Contributors: Campbell, Joseph Keim, 1958-; O'Rourke, Michael, 1963-; Silverstein, Harry, 1942-
Series: Topics in contemporary philosophy
Publisher: MIT Press
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Cambridge, Mass
Language: eng
Number of pages: 315
ISBN-13: 9780262033633; 9780262532907
Subjects: Causation.; Explanation.
Notes: "A Bradford book."

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Explaining four psychological asymmetries in causal reasoning: implications of causal assumptions for coherence; title: Causality and computation; title: Actual causes and thought experiments; title: What's wrong with neuron diagrams?; title: Mackie remixed; title: Occasional causes; title: In defense of explanatory deductivism; title: Goal-directed action and teleological explanation; title: Van Fraassens Dutch book argument against explanationism; title: Counterfactuals in economics: a commentary; title: Why don't you want to be rich? preference explanation on the basis of causal structure; title: Decisions, intentions, urges, and free will: why Libet has not shown what he says he has; title: Constitutive overdetermination; title: Ex nihilo nihil fit: arguments new and old for the principle of sufficient reason.