Causal Models: How People Think about the World and Its Alternatives

1. Agency and the Role of Causation in Mental Life Part I. The Theory 2. The Information Is in the Invariants 3. What Is a Cause? 4. Causal Models 5. Observation Versus Action Part II. Evidence and Application 6. Reasoning About Causation 7. Decision Making via Causal Consequences 8. The Psychology of Judgment: Causality Is Pervasive 9. Causality and Conceptual Structure 10. Categorical Induction 11. Locating Causal Structure in Language 12. Causal Learning 13. Conclusion: Causation in the Mind Notes References Index