Research Catalog

Title

Explanation and cognition / edited by Frank C. Keil and Robert A. Wilson.

Publication

Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, c2000.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Keil, Frank C., 1952-
• Wilson, Robert A. (Robert Andrew)

Description

x, 396 p. : ill.; 24 cm.

Subject

• Cognition
• Explanation

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Explaining explanation / Frank C. Keil and Robert A. Wilson -- Discovering explanations / Herbert A. Simon -- The naturalness of religion and the unnaturalness of science / Robert N. McCauley -- The shadows and shallows of explanation / Robert A. Wilson and Frank C. Keil -- "How does it work?" versus "What are the laws?": two conceptions of psychological explanation / Robert Cummins -- Twisted tales: causal complexity and cognitive scientific explanation / Andy Clark -- Bayes nets as psychological models / Clark Glymour -- The role of mechanism beliefs in causal reasoning / Woo-kyoung Ahn and Charles W. Kalish -- Causality in the mind: estimating contextual and conjunctive power / Patricia W. Cheng -- Explaining disease: correlations, causes, and mechanisms / Paul Thagard -- Explantion in scientists and children / William F. Brewer, Clark A. Chinn, and Ala Samarapungavan -- Explanation as orgasm and the drive for causal knowledge: the function, evolution, and phenomenology of the theory formation system / Alison Gopnik -- Explanatory knowledge and conceptual combination / Christine Johnson and Frank Keil -- Explanatory concepts / Gregory L. Murphy.

Call Number

JFE 00-12223

ISBN

0262112493 (alk. paper)

LCCN

99087946

OCLC

43403646

Title

Explanation and cognition / edited by Frank C. Keil and Robert A. Wilson.

Imprint

Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, c2000.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Added Author

Keil, Frank C., 1952-

Wilson, Robert A. (Robert Andrew)

Research Call Number

JFE 00-12223