Causal models : how people think about the world and its alternatives

Publication Data

• Title Causal models : how people think about the world and its alternatives
• Author Steven A. Sloman
• Publisher Oxford University Press
• Publication date 2005
• Publication location New York
• Language English

Contents

Agency and the role of causation in mental life
The information is in the invariants
What is a cause?
Causal models
Observation versus action
Reasoning about causation
Decision making via causal consequences
The psychology of judgment : causality is pervasive
Causality and conceptual structure
Categorical induction
Locating causal structure in language
Causal learning
Causation in the mind.

Topics

• Psychology :: Mathematical models
• 013215292

Causal models : how people think about the world and its alternatives by Steven A. Sloman. ISBN 9780195183115. Published by Oxford University Press in 2005. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.