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Causal models : how people think about the world and its alternatives /

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Sloman offers a conceptual introduction to key mathematical ideas, focusing on the intuitions rather than the theorems. He tries to show why the ideas are important to understanding how people explain things, & why it is central to human action to think not only about the world as it is, but als...

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Main Author: Sloman, Steven A.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2005.
Subjects:
Psychology > Mathematical models.
Causation.
Psychologie > Modèles mathématiques.
PHILOSOPHY > Epistemology.
Causation
Psychology > Mathematical models
Kausales Denken
Philosophie
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
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Summary:Sloman offers a conceptual introduction to key mathematical ideas, focusing on the intuitions rather than the theorems. He tries to show why the ideas are important to understanding how people explain things, & why it is central to human action to think not only about the world as it is, but also about the world as it could be.
Physical Description:1 online resource (xi, 212 pages) : illustrations
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references (pages 191-200) and index.
ISBN:9780198040378
0198040377
1423746376
9781423746379
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0199728402
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0199870950
0195183118
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