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Contemporary science and natural explanation : commonsense conceptions of causality /

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Hilton, Denis J.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : New York University Press, 1988.
Subjects:
Causation.
Explanation.
Table of 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 HarrĂ©
  • 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.