Contemporary Science and Natural Explanation: Commonsense Conceptions of Causality

Half Title......Page 1
Title Page......Page 3
Copyright......Page 4
Dedication......Page 5
Contents......Page 7
List of Contributors......Page 9
Preface......Page 11
Introduction: Images of Science and Commonsense Explanation, D.J. Hilton......Page 13
PART I: CONTRASTS AND CAUSAL EXPLANATIONS......Page 21
The Problem of Causal Selection, G. Hesslow......Page 23
Logic and Causal Attribution, D.J. Hilton......Page 45
Conversational and Linguistic Processes in Causal Attribution, W. Turnbull & B. Slugoski......Page 78
The Role of Selective Attribution in Causality Judgment, D.R. Shanks & A. Dickinson......Page 106
PART II: CONCEPTUAL STRUCTURES AND THEORIES......Page 139
Modes of Explanation, R. Harre......Page 141
Seeing the Connections in Lay Causal Comprehension: A Return to Heider, Ch. Abraham......Page 157
Knowledge Structures and Causal Explanation, R.P. Abelson and M. Lalljee......Page 187
Relationships Between Similarity-based and Explanation-based Categorisation, W.D. Wattenmaker, G.V. Nakamura, D.L. Medin......Page 216
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