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Understanding counterfactuals, understanding causation : issues in philosophy and psychology

Title
Understanding counterfactuals, understanding causation : issues in philosophy and psychology / edited by Christoph Hoerl, Teresa McCormack, and Sarah R. Beck.
Publication
Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2011.

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Additional Authors
  • Hoerl, Christoph.
  • McCormack, Teresa.
  • Beck, Sarah R.
Description
viii, 270 p. : ill.; 24 cm.
Series Statement
Consciousness and self-consciousness
Uniform Title
Consciousness and self-consciousness.
Subjects
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Introduction : understanding counterfactuals and causation / Christoph Hoerl, Teresa McCormack, and Sarah R. Beck -- Psychological studies of causal and counterfactual reasoning / James Woodward -- The relationship between children's causal and counterfactual judgements / Teresa McCormack, Caren Frosch, and Patrick Burns -- Perceptual causality, counterfactuals, and special causal concepts / Johannes Roessler -- Counterfactual and other forms of conditional reasoning : children lost in the nearest possible world / Josef Pemer and Eva Rafetseder -- Multiple developments in counterfactual thinking / Sarah R. Beck, Kevin J. Riggs, and Patrick Burns -- Domain-specific causal knowledge and children's reasoning about possibility / David M. Sobel -- Mental simulation and the nexus of causal and counterfactual explanation / David R. Mandel -- Counterfactual availability and causal judgment / Christopher Hitchcock -- The role of counterfactual dependence in casual judgements / Peter Menzies -- Counterfactual and causal thoughts about exceptional events / Ruth M.J. Byrne -- Causation first : why causation is prior to counterfactuals / Dorothy Edgington -- Suppositions, conditionals, and causal claims / Aidan Feeney and Simon J. Handley.
Call Number
JFE 12-2073
ISBN
  • 9780199590698
  • 0199590699
  • 019969513X
  • 9780199695133
LCCN
2011275914
OCLC
714724957
Title
Understanding counterfactuals, understanding causation : issues in philosophy and psychology / edited by Christoph Hoerl, Teresa McCormack, and Sarah R. Beck.
Imprint
Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2011.
Series
Consciousness and self-consciousness
Consciousness and self-consciousness.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Added Author
Hoerl, Christoph.
McCormack, Teresa.
Beck, Sarah R.
Research Call Number
JFE 12-2073
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