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Contemporary science and natural explanation : commonsense conceptions of causality

Title
Contemporary science and natural explanation : commonsense conceptions of causality / Denis J. Hilton, editor.
Publication
New York : New York University Press, 1988.

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Additional Authors
Hilton, Denis J.
Description
xii, 244 p. : ill.; 23 cm.
Subject
  • Causation
  • Explanation
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographies and index.
Contents
Introduction, images of science and commonsense explanation / Denis J. Hilton -- The problem of causal selection / Germund Hesslow -- Logic and causal attribution / Denis J. Hilton -- Conversational and linguistic processes in causal attribution / William Turnbull and Ben Slugoski -- The role of selective attribution in causality judgment / David R. Shanks and Anthony Dickinson -- Modes of explanation / Rom Harré -- Seeing the connections in lay causal comprehension / Charles Abraham -- Knowledge structures and causal explanation / Robert P. Abelson and Mansur Lalljee -- Relationships between similarity-based and explanation-based categorisation / William D. Wattenmaker, Glenn V. Nakamura, and Douglas L. Medin.
ISBN
081473443X
LCCN
87011142
OCLC
  • 15590236
  • SCSB-1189964
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library