Description: Causal Models : How People Think About The World And Its Alternatives, Hardcover by Sloman, Steven A., ISBN 0195183118, ISBN-13 9780195183115, Like New Used, Free shipping in the US Human beings are active agents who can think. To understand how thought serves action requires understanding how people conceive of the relation between cause and effect, between action and outcome. In cognitive terms, how do people construct and reason with the causal models we use to represent our world? A revolution is occurring in how statisticians, philosophers, and computer scientists answer this question. Those fields have ushered in new insights about causal models by thinking about how to represent causal structure mathematically, in a framework that uses graphs and probability theory to develop what are called causal Bayesian networks. The framework starts with the idea that the purpose of causal structure is to understand and predict the effects of intervention. How does intervening on one thing affect other things? This is not a question merely about probability (or logic), but about action. The framework offers a new understanding of mind: Thought is about the effects of intervention and cognition is thus intimately tied to actions that take place either in the actual physical world or in imagination, in counterfactual worlds. Th offers a conceptual introduction to the key mathematical ideas, presenting them in a non-technical way, focusing on the intuitions rather than the theorems. It tries to show why the ideas are important to understanding how people explain things and why thinking not only about the world as it is but the world as it could be is so central to human action. Th reviews the role of causality, causal models, and intervention in the basic human cognitive functions: decision making, reasoning, judgment, categorization, inductive inference, language, and learning. In short, th offers a discussion about how people think, talk, learn, and explain things in causal terms, in terms of action and manipulation.
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Book Title: Causal Models : How People Think About The World And Its Alternat
Number of Pages: 224 Pages
Language: English
Publication Name: Causal Models : How People Think about the World and Its Alternatives
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Subject: General, Cognitive Psychology & Cognition, Statistics
Publication Year: 2005
Item Height: 0.6 in
Type: Textbook
Item Weight: 17.6 Oz
Author: Steven Sloman
Subject Area: Philosophy, Psychology
Item Length: 9.2 in
Item Width: 6.1 in
Format: Hardcover
