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Explanation and cognition /
These essays draw on work in the history and philosophy of science, the philosophy of mind and language, the development of concepts in children, conceptual change in adults, and reasoning in human and artificial systems. Explanations seem to be a large and natural part of our cognitive lives. As Fr...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge, Mass. :
MIT Press,
©2000.
©2000 |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Explaining explanation / Frank C. Keil and Robert A. Wilson
- Discovering explanations / Herbert A. Simon
- The naturalness of religion and the unnaturalness of science / Robert N. McCauley
- The shadows and shallows of explanation / Robert A. Wilson and Frank C. Keil
- "How does it work?" versus "What are the laws?": two conceptions of psychological explanation / Robert Cummins
- Twisted tales: causal complexity and cognitive scientific explanation / Andy Clark
- Bayes nets as psychological models / Clark Glymour
- The role of mechanism beliefs in causal reasoning / Woo-kyoung Ahn and Charles W. Kalish
- Causality in the mind: estimating contextual and conjunctive power / Patricia W. Cheng
- Explaining disease: correlations, causes, and mechanisms / Paul Thagard
- Explantion in scientists and children / William F. Brewer, Clark A. Chinn, and Ala Samarapungavan
- Explanation as orgasm and the drive for causal knowledge: the function, evolution, and phenomenology of the theory formation system / Alison Gopnik
- Explanatory knowledge and conceptual combination / Christine Johnson and Frank Keil
- Explanatory concepts / Gregory L. Murphy.