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Understanding counterfactuals, understanding causation : issues in philosophy and psychology / edited by Christoph Hoerl, Teresa McCormack and Sarah R. Beck.

Contributor(s): Series: Publication details: Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2011.Description: viii, 270 p. : ill. ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 9780199590698
  • 0199590699
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 160.11987 HOE
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Contents:
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 Burns 1 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
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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 Burns 1
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