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Understanding counterfactuals, understanding causation : Issues in philosophy and psychology / edited by Christoph Hoerl, Teresa McCormack, and Sarah R. Beck. - Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2011. - viii, 270 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. - Consciousness and self-consciousness .

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction
Christoph Hoerl, Teresa McCormack, Sarah R. Beck
1 Psychological Studies of Causal and Counterfactual Reasoning
James Woodward
2 The Relationship between Children’s Causal and Counterfactual Judgements
Teresa McCormack, Caren Frosch, Patrick Burns
3 Perceptual Causality, Counterfactuals, and Special Causal Concepts
Johannes Roessler
4 Counterfactual and Other Forms of Conditional Reasoning
Josef Perner and Eva Rafetseder
5 Multiple Developments in Counterfactual Thinking
Sarah R. Beck, Kevin J. Riggs and Patrick Burns1
6 Domain-Specific Causal Knowledge and Children’s Reasoning about Possibility
David M. Sobel1
7 Mental Simulation and the Nexus of Causal and Counterfactual Explanation
David R. Mandel1
8 Counterfactual Availability and Causal Judgment
Christopher Hitchcock
9 The Role of Counterfactual Dependence in Causal Judgements
Peter Menzies
10 Counterfactual and Causal Thoughts about Exceptional Events
Ruth M.J. Byrne1
11 Causation First: Why Causation is Prior to Counterfactuals
Dorothy Edgington
12 Suppositions, Conditionals, and Causal Claims
Aidan Feeney, Simon J. Handley

ISBN: 9780199590698 0199590699 019969513X 9780199695133

LCCN: 2011275914

Nat. Bib. Agency Control No.: 015829971 Uk

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Causation.
Counterfactuals (Logic)
Reasoning (Psychology)

LC Class. No.: BC199.C38 / U53 2011

Dewey Class. No.: 160.11987 HOE