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Understanding Counterfactuals, Understanding Causation - Issues in Philosophy and Psychology (Hardcover)
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Understanding Counterfactuals, Understanding Causation - Issues in Philosophy and Psychology (Hardcover)
Series: Consciousness & Self-Consciousness Series
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How are causal judgements such as 'The ice on the road caused the
traffic accident' connected with counterfactual judgements such as
'If there had not been any ice on the road, the traffic accident
would not have happened'? This volume throws new light on this
question by uniting, for the first time, psychological and
philosophical approaches to causation and counterfactuals.
Traditionally, philosophers have primarily been interested in
connections between causal and counterfactual claims on the level
of meaning or truth-conditions. More recently, however, they have
also increasingly turned their attention to psychological
connections between causal and counterfactual understanding or
reasoning. At the same time, there has been a surge in interest in
empirical work on causal and counterfactual cognition amongst
developmental, cognitive, and social psychologists--much of it
inspired by work in philosophy. In this volume, twelve original
contributions from leading philosophers and psychologists explore
in detail what bearing empirical findings might have on
philosophical concerns about counterfactuals and causation, and
how, in turn, work in philosophy might help clarify the issues at
stake in empirical work on the cognitive underpinnings of, and
relationships between, causal and counterfactual thought.
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