Causal Supersession

Proceedings of the 36th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, CogSci 2014

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages 761-766

  Kominsky, Jonathan F ^a   Phillips, Jonathan ^a   Gerstenberg, Tobias ^b   Lagnado, David ^c   Knobe, Joshua ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Causal reasoning; Counterfactuals; Morality; Supersession

Indexed keywords

CAUSAL REASONING; COUNTERFACTUALS; EVENT STRUCTURES; MORALITY; NORM VIOLATION; REASONING MODELS; SUPERSESSION;

EID: 85139209577     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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