Causation with a Human Face - James Woodward

Causation with a Human Face

Normative Theory and Descriptive Psychology

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Buch | Hardcover
424 Seiten
2021
Oxford University Press Inc (Verlag)
978-0-19-758541-2 (ISBN)
115,95 inkl. MwSt
The past few decades have seen an explosion of research on causal reasoning in philosophy, computer science, and statistics, as well as descriptive work in psychology. In Causation with a Human Face, James Woodward integrates these lines of research and argues for an understanding of how each can inform the other: normative ideas can suggest interesting experiments, while descriptive results can suggest important normative concepts. Woodward's overall framework builds on the interventionist treatment of causation that he developed in Making Things Happen. Normative ideas discussed include proposals about the role of invariant or stable relationships in successful causal reasoning and the notion of proportionality. He argues that these normative ideas are reflected in the causal judgments that people actually make as a descriptive matter.

Woodward also discusses the common philosophical practice-particularly salient in philosophical accounts of causation--of appealing to "intuitions" or "judgments about cases" in support of philosophical theses. He explores how, properly understood, such appeals are not different in principle from appeals to results from empirical research, and demonstrates how they may serve as a useful source of information about causal cognition.

James Woodward is Distinguished Professor in the Department of History and Philosophy of Science, University of Pittsburgh, and the J.O. and Juliette Koepfli Professor Emeritus at the California Institute of Technology. He is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and served as President of the Philosophy of Science Association from 2010-2012.

Contents
Foreword
Chapter 1: The Normative and the Descriptive
Chapter 2: Theories of Causation
Chapter 3: Methods for Investigating Causal Cognition: Armchair Philosophy, X-Phi and Empirical Psychology
Chapter 4: Some Empirical Results Concerning Causal Learning and Representation
Chapter 5: Invariance
Chapter 6: Invariance Applied
Chapter 7: Invariance: Experimental Results from Cheng, Lombrozo and Others
Chapter 8: Proportionality
References

Erscheinungsdatum
Reihe/Serie Oxford Studies in Philosophy of Science
Verlagsort New York
Sprache englisch
Maße 224 x 160 mm
Gewicht 726 g
Themenwelt Mathematik / Informatik Informatik Theorie / Studium
Mathematik / Informatik Mathematik
Naturwissenschaften
ISBN-10 0-19-758541-8 / 0197585418
ISBN-13 978-0-19-758541-2 / 9780197585412
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