Causation and Explanation

Acknowledgments vii Introduction ix Raymond Dacey Explaining Four Psychological Asymmetries in Causal Reasoning: Implications of Causal Assumptions for Coherence 1(32) Patricia W. Cheng Laura R. Novick Mimi Liljeholm Christina Ford Causality and Computation 33(10) Patrick Suppes Actual Causes and Thought Experiments 43(26) Clark Glymour Frank Wimberly What's Wrong with Neuron Diagrams? 69(24) Christopher Hitchcock Mackie Remixed 93(26) Michael Strevens Occasional Causes 119(14) Russell Wahl In Defense of Explanatory Deductivism 133(22) Bruce Glymour Goal-Directed Action and Teleological Explanation 155(16) Scott R. Sehon Van Fraassen's Dutch Book Argument against Explanationism 171(20) Dorit Ganson Counterfactuals in Economics: A Commentary 191(26) Nancy Cartwright Why Don't You Want to Be Rich? Preference Explanation on the Basis of Causal Structure 217(24) Till Grune-Yanoff Decisions, Intentions, Urges, and Free Will: Why Libet Has Not Shown What He Says He Has 241(24) Alfred R. Mele Constitutive Overdetermination 265(26) L. A. Paul Ex nihilo nihil fit: Arguments New and Old for the Principle of Sufficient Reason 291(20) Alexander Pruss Index 311