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Causation With A Human Face by James Woodward, Hardcover | Indigo Chapters

From James Woodward

Current price: $119.95
Causation With A Human Face by James Woodward, Hardcover | Indigo Chapters
Causation With A Human Face by James Woodward, Hardcover | Indigo Chapters

Indigo

Causation With A Human Face by James Woodward, Hardcover | Indigo Chapters

From James Woodward

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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 eachcan 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 discussedinclude 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 fromappeals to results from empirical research, and demonstrates how they may serve as a useful source of information about causal cognition. | Causation With A Human Face by James Woodward, Hardcover | Indigo Chapters

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