Campbell, Joseph Keim ; O’Rourke, Michael ; & Silverstein, Harry ; editors: - Causation and ExplanationCambridge [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. USD 69.00 [Appr.: EURO 60.75 | £UK 51.75 | JP¥ 9836] Book number BOOKS022001Iis offered by:
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