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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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Bibliographic Details
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
Table of Contents:
  • Agency and the role of causation in mental life
  • The information is in the invariants
  • What is a cause?
  • Causal models
  • Observation versus action
  • Reasoning about causation
  • Decision making via causal consequences
  • The psychology of judgment : causality is pervasive
  • Causality and conceptual structure
  • Categorical induction
  • Locating causal structure in language
  • Causal learning
  • Causation in the mind.