Contemporary science and natural explanation
Subtitle: commonsense conceptions of causality
By: Denis J. Hilton, editor.
Contributors: Hilton, Denis J.
Publisher: New York University Press; Brand: New York University Press
Published: 1988
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 244
Subjects: Causation.; Explanation.
Notes: Includes bibliographies and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction, images of science and commonsense explanation / Denis J. Hilton; title: The problem of causal selection / Germund Hesslow; title: Logic and causal attribution / Denis J. Hilton; title: Conversational and linguistic processes in causal attribution / William Turnbull and Ben Slugoski; title: The role of selective attribution in causality judgment / David R. Shanks and Anthony Dickinson; title: Modes of explanation / Rom Harré; title: Seeing the connections in lay causal comprehension / Charles Abraham; title: Knowledge structures and causal explanation / Robert P. Abelson and Mansur Lalljee; title: Relationships between similarity-based and explanation-based categorisation / William D. Wattenmaker, Glenn V. Nakamura, and Douglas L. Medin.