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

Sloman offers a conceptual introduction to key mathematical ideas, focusing on the intuitions rather than the theorems. He tries to show why the ideas are important to understanding how people explain things, & why it is central to human action to think not only about the world as it is, but als...

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Main Author: Sloman, Steven A.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : Oxford University Press, 2005.
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