Explanation and cognition /
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Cambridge, Mass. :
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Table of Contents:
- 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.