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Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, c2007

1 online resource (xviii, 315 p.) : ill

ISBN 0262033631 (hardcover : alk. paper)

ISBN 0262532905 (pbk. : alk. paper)

ISBN 9780262033633 (hardcover : alk. paper)

ISBN 9780262532907 (pbk. : alk. paper)

Topics in contemporary philosophy

"A Bradford book."

Includes bibliographical references and index

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.

Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries

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(OCoLC)170967978

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