Causal reasoning is one of our most central cognitive competencies,
enabling us to adapt to our world. Causal knowledge allows us to
predict future events, or diagnose the causes of observed facts. We
plan actions and solve problems using knowledge about cause-effect
relations. Although causal reasoning is a component of most of our
cognitive functions, it has been neglected in cognitive psychology
for many decades. The Oxford Handbook of Causal Reasoning offers a
state-of-the-art review of the growing field, and its contribution
to the world of cognitive science. The Handbook begins with an
introduction of competing theories of causal learning and
reasoning. In the next section, it presents research about basic
cognitive functions involved in causal cognition, such as
perception, categorization, argumentation, decision-making, and
induction. The following section examines research on domains that
embody causal relations, including intuitive physics, legal and
moral reasoning, psychopathology, language, social cognition, and
the roles of space and time. The final section presents research
from neighboring fields that study developmental, phylogenetic, and
cultural differences in causal cognition. The chapters, each
written by renowned researchers in their field, fill in the gaps of
many cognitive psychology textbooks, emphasizing the crucial role
of causal structures in our everyday lives. This Handbook is an
essential read for students and researchers of the cognitive
sciences, including cognitive, developmental, social, comparative,
and cross-cultural psychology; philosophy; methodology; statistics;
artificial intelligence; and machine learning.
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