These essays draw on work in the history and philosophy of science, the philosophy of mind and language, the development of concepts in children, conceptual change in adults, and reasoning in human and artificial systems.
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These essays draw on work in the history and philosophy of science, the philosophy of mind and language, the development of concepts in children, conceptual change in adults, and reasoning in human and artificial systems.
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Minor rubbing. An ink mark to top page-edge. VG. 24x15cm., x, 396 pp. Contents: Explaining explanation; Discovering explanations; The naturalness of religion and the unnaturalness of science; The shadows and shallows of explanation; "How does it work? " versus "What are the laws? ": two conceptions of psychological explanation; Twisted tales: causal complexity and cognitive scientific explanation; Bayes nets as psychological models; The role of mechanism beliefs in causal reasoning; Causality in the mind: estimating contextual and conjunctive power; Explaining disease: correlations, causes, and mechanisms; Explantion in scientists and children; Explanation as orgasm and the drive for causal knowledge: the function, evolution, and phenomenology of the theory formation system; Explanatory knowledge and conceptual combination; Explanatory concepts.
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Fair in fair dust jacket. This is a used book. It may contain highlighting/underlining and/or the book may show heavier signs of wear. It may also be ex-library or without dustjacket. This is a used book. It may contain highlighting/underlining and/or the book may show heavier signs of wear. It may also be ex-library or without dustjacket.
