Author: Keil, Frank C. ; & Wilson, Robert Andrew ; editors:
Title: Explanation and Cognition
Description: Cambridge [MA], MIT Press, (2000). orig.cloth. 24x15cm. x,396 pp.. Minor rubbing. An ink mark to top page-edge. VG. ¶ Contents: Explaining explanation; Discovering explanations; The naturalness of religion and the unnaturalness of science; The shadows and shallows of explanation; "How does it work?" versus "What are the laws?": two conceptions of psychological explanation; Twisted tales: causal complexity and cognitive scientific explanation; Bayes nets as psychological models; The role of mechanism beliefs in causal reasoning; Causality in the mind: estimating contextual and conjunctive power; Explaining disease: correlations, causes, and mechanisms; Explantion in scientists and children; Explanation as orgasm and the drive for causal knowledge: the function, evolution, and phenomenology of the theory formation system; Explanatory knowledge and conceptual combination; Explanatory concepts.

Keywords: Cognitive Psychology, Concept Formation, Cognition, Explanation, Causal Reasoning, Causation, Theory of Knowledge, ,