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Explanation and cognition / edited by Frank C. Keil and Robert A. Wilson. - Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, �2000. - 1 online resource (x, 396 pages) : illustrations

"A Bradford book."

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.


English.

ISBN: 9780262276917 0262276917 0262112493 9780262112499

Nat. Bib. Agency Control No.: 100961366 DNLM

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Cognition.
Explanation.
SCIENCE--Cognitive Science.
PSYCHOLOGY--Cognitive Psychology.
Cognition.
Explanation.
Cognitie.
Verklaring.
Cognition.
Thinking.
Mental Processes.
Psychological Phenomena and Processes.
Psychiatry and Psychology.
Concept Formation.

Index Terms--Genre/Form:
Electronic books.

LC Class. No.: BF311 / .E886 2000eb

Dewey Class. No.: 153

National Library of Medicine Call No.: 2001 K-875 BF 311 / E965 2000