Explanation and cognition
| Titel: | Explanation and cognition / ed. by Frank C. Keil ... |
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| Veröffentlicht: | Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, 2000 |
| Umfang: | X, 396 S. : Ill. ; 24 cm |
| Format: | E-Book |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
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Vorliegende Ausgabe: | Online-Ausg. 2004. - Online-Ressource. |
| ISBN: | 058549021X (Sekundärausgabe) |
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- Preface
- Contributors
- 1
- Explaining Explanation
- I
- Cognizing Explanations: Three Gambits
- 2
- Discovering Explanations
- 3
- The Naturalness of Religion and the Unnaturalness of Science
- 4
- The Shadow and Shallows of Explanation
- II
- Explaining Cognition
- 5
- "How Does It Work?" versus "What Are the Laws?": Two Conceptions of Psychological Explanation
- 6
- Twisted Tales: Causal Complexity and Cognitive Scientific Explanation
- III
- The Representation of Causal Patterns
- 7
- Bayes Nets as Psychological Models
- 8
- The Role of Mechanism Beliefs in Causal Reasoning
- 9
- Causality in the Mind: Estimating Contextual and Conjunctive Power
- 10
- Explaining Disease: Correlations, Causes, and Mechanisms
- IV
- Cognitive Development, Science, and Explanation
- 11
- Explanation in Scientists and Children
- 12
- Explanation as Orgasm and the Drive for Causal Knowledge: The Function, Evolution, and Phenomenology of the Theory Formation System
- V
- Explanatory Influences on Concept Acquisition and Use
- 13
- Explanatory Knowledge and Conceptual Combination
- 14
- Explanatory Concepts
- Index
