Experiments on Causal Exclusion
Intuitions play an important role in the debate on the causal status of high-level properties. For instance, Kim has claimed that his 'exclusion argument' relies on 'a perfectly …
Tania Lombrozo
Stable Causal Relationships Are Better Causal Relationships
We report three experiments investigating whether people's judgments about causal relationships are sensitive to the robustness or stability of such relationships across a range of …
Stability, Breadth and Guidance
Much recent work on explanation in the interventionist tradition emphasizes the explanatory value of stable causal generalizations. We argue that two separate explanatory virtues …
Bayesian Occam's Razor is a Razor of the People
Occam's razor plays a prominent role in ordinary and scientific inference. One attractive hypothesis known as Bayesian Occam's razor (BOR) is that more complex hypotheses tend to …