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Cause and Effect, Conditionals, Explanations (Paperback)
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Cause and Effect, Conditionals, Explanations (Paperback)
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This series of books presents the fundamentals of reasoning well,
in a style accessible to both students and scholars. The text of
each essay presents a story, the main line of development of the
ideas, while the footnotes and appendices place the research within
a larger scholarly context. The essays overlap, forming a unified
analysis of reasoning, yet each essay is designed so that it may be
read independently of the others. The topic of this volume is the
evaluation of reasoning about cause and effect, reasoning using
conditionals, and reasoning that involves explanations. The essay
"Reasoning about Cause and Effect" sets out a way to analyze
whether there is cause and effect in terms of whether an inference
from a claim describing the purported cause to a claim describing
the purported effect satisfies specific conditions. Different
notions of cause and effect correspond to placing different
conditions on what counts as a good causal inference. An
application of that method in "The Directedness of Emotions" leads
to a clearer understanding of the issue whether every emotion need
be directed at something. In the essay "Conditionals" various ways
of analyzing reasoning with claims of the form "if . . . then . .
." are surveyed. Some of those uses are meant to be judged as
inferences that are not necessarily valid, and conditions are given
for when we can consider such inferences to be good. In
"Explanations" verbal answers to a question why a claim is true are
evaluated in terms of conditions placed on inferences from the
explaining claims to the claim being explained. Recognizing that
the direction of inference of such an explanation is the reverse of
that for an argument with the very same claims is crucial in their
evaluation. Explanations in terms of functions and goals are also
investigated.
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