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    <dateIssued>c2007</dateIssued>
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    <extent>xviii, 315 p. : ill.</extent>
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  <tableOfContents>Explaining four psychological asymmetries in causal reasoning: implications of causal assumptions for coherence -- Causality and computation -- Actual causes and thought experiments -- What's wrong with neuron diagrams? -- Mackie remixed -- Occasional causes -- In defense of explanatory deductivism -- Goal-directed action and teleological explanation -- Van Fraassens Dutch book argument against explanationism -- Counterfactuals in economics: a commentary -- Why don't you want to be rich? preference explanation on the basis of causal structure -- Decisions, intentions, urges, and free will: why Libet has not shown what he says he has -- Constitutive overdetermination -- Ex nihilo nihil fit: arguments new and old for the principle of sufficient reason.</tableOfContents>
  <note type="statement of responsibility">edited by Joseph Keim Campbell, Michael O'Rourke, and Harry Silverstein.</note>
  <note>"A Bradford book."</note>
  <note>Includes bibliographical references and index.</note>
  <note>Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2013. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.</note>
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    <topic>Causation</topic>
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    <topic>Explanation</topic>
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