Understanding counterfactuals, understanding causation
Subtitle: issues in philosophy and psychology
By: edited by Christoph Hoerl, Teresa McCormack, and Sarah R. Beck
Series: Consciousness and self-consciousness; Consciousness and self-consciousness
Publisher: Oxford University Press; Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Oxford; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 270
ISBN-13: 9780199590698; 9780199695133
Subjects: Causation; Counterfactuals (Logic); Reasoning (Psychology)
Description: How are causal judgements such as 'the ice on the road caused the traffic accident' connected with judgements such as 'if there had not been any ice on the road, the traffic accident would not have happened'? This book looks at this question by uniting psychological and philosophical approaches to causation and counterfactuals.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.