Causal models
how people think about the world and its alternatives
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Author
Publication
2005 - Oxford University Press, New York, New York (State)
Language
English
Word Count
53,000 words, Guess
Page Count
212 pages
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL3301246M
- ISBN-100195183118
- OCLC Control Number57530485
- OCLC Control Numbercausalmodelshowp00slom_512
- Library of Congress Control Number2004031000
and 2 more
- LibraryThing1912903
- Goodreads915900
Classifications
- DDC122
- LCCBF39 .S56 2005
Description
"In this book, Steven Sloman offers a conceptual introduction to the key mathematical ideas in the framework, presenting them in a non-technical way, by focusing on the intuitions rather than the theorems. He tries to show why the ideas are important to understanding how people explain things, and why it is so central to human action to think not only about the world as it is, but also about the world as it could be. Sloman discusses the roles of causality, causal models, and intervention in the basic human cognitive functions: decision making, reasoning, judgment, categorization, inductive inference, language, and learning. In short, this book offers a discussion about how people think, talk, learn, and explain things in causal terms - in terms of action and manipulation."--Jacket.
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