Causal learning : psychology, philosophy, and computation / edited by Alison Gopnik, Laura Schulz.

Other author Gopnik, Alison.
Other author Schulz, Laura Elizabeth.
Format Book
Publication InfoOxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2007.
Descriptionx, 358 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm
Supplemental ContentTable of contents only
Supplemental ContentPublisher description
Supplemental ContentContributor biographical information
Subjects
Learning, Psychology of.
Causation.

Contents Introduction / Alison Gopnik and Laura Schulz -- Part I: Causation and intervention -- Interventionist theories of causation in psychological perspective / Jim Woodward -- Infants' causal learning : intervention, observation, imitation / Andrew N. Meltzoff -- Detecting causal structure : the role of intervention in infants' understanding of psychological and physical causal relations / Jessica A. Sommerville -- An interventionist approach to causation in psychology / John Campbell -- Learning from doing : intervention and causal inference / Laura Schulz, Tamar Kushnir, and Alison Gopnik -- Causal reasoning through intervention / York Hagmayer ... [et al.] -- On the importance of causal taxonomy / Christopher Hitchcock -- Part II: Causation and probability -- Introduction to part II : causation and probability / Alison Gopnik and Laura Schulz -- Teaching the normative theory of causal reasoning / Richard Scheines, Matt Easterday, and David Danks -- Interactions between causal and statistical learning / David M. Sobel and Natasha Z. Kirkham -- Beyond covariation : cues to causal structure / David A. Lagnado ... [et al.] -- Theory unification and graphical models in human categorization / David Danks -- Essentialism as a generative theory of classification / Bob Rehder -- Data-mining probabilists or experimental determinists? a dialogue on the principles underlying causal learning in children / Thomas Richardson, Laura Schultz, and Alison Gopnik -- Learning the structure of deterministic systems / Clark Glymour -- Part III: Causation, theories, and mechanisms -- Introduction to part III : causation, theories, and mechanisms / Alison Gopnik and Laura Schulz -- Why represent causal relations? / Michael Strevens -- Causal reasoning as informed by the early development of explanations / Henry M. Wellman and David Liu -- Dynamic interpretations of covariation data / Woo-kyoung Ahn, Jessecae K. Marsh, and Christian C. Luhmann -- Statistical jokes and social effects : intervention and invariance in causal relations / Clark Glymour -- Intuitive theories as grammars for causal inference / Joshua B. Tenenbaum, Thomas L. Griffiths, and Sourabh Niyogi -- Two proposals for causal grammars / Thomas L. Griffiths and Joshua B. Tenenbaum.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
LCCN 2006018902
ISBN0195176804 (alk. paper)
ISBN9780195176803 (alk. paper)

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