Author: Campbell, Joseph Keim ; O’Rourke, Michael ; & Silverstein, Harry ; editors:
Title: Causation and Explanation
Description: Cambridge [MA], MIT Press, (2007). orig.cloth. 24x15cm, xviii,315 pp.. Minor rubbing. A small ink mark to top page-edge. VG. ¶ Contents: 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 Fraassens 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.

Keywords: Philosophy, Causation, Explanation, , , , , ,