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Purposes and Causes in Adults’ Explanations of the Natural World

Description:

Western scientific norms (e.g., Bacon, 1623/2005) dictate that mechanistic explanations like “rain falls because clouds form water vapor” are preferable to teleological ones like “rain falls so that plants should grow. Do people have preferences that naturally align with this? The predominant interpretation of past research is that they do...

Keyword:

explanation, counterfactuals, teleology, and causal reasoning

Subject:

Cognitive psychology

Creator:

Dink, Jacob

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Scholarly Digital Publishing

Language:

en

Date Uploaded:

02/01/2021

Date Created:

2020-01-01

Resource Type:

Dissertation

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etdadmin_upload_771757 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15334