The Oxford Handbook of Causal Reasoning

Michael R. Waldmann, PhD, is Professor of Psychology at the University of Göttingen, Germany. He has received the early career research award from the German Society for Psychology, and is a Fellow of APS. Currently he is serving as an associate editor of the Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, and as chair of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Max Planck Institute of Human Development, Berlin. The focus of his research is on higher-level cognitive processes across different species and cultures.

• Contents 1. Causal Reasoning: An Introduction Michael R. Waldmann Part I: Theories of Causal Cognition 2. Associative Accounts of Causal Cognition Mike E. Le Pelley, Oren Griffiths, and Tom Beesley3. Rules of Causal Judgment: Mapping Statistical Information Onto Causal Beliefs José C. Perales, Andrés Catena, Antonio Cándido, and Antonio Maldonado4. The Inferential Reasoning Theory of Causal Learning: Toward a Multi- Process Propositional Account Yannick Boddez, Jan De Houwer, and Tom Beckers5. Causal Invariance as an Essential Constraint for Creating a Causal Representation of the World: Generalizing the Invariance of Causal Power Patricia W. Cheng and Hongjing Lu6. The Acquisition and Use of Causal Structure Knowledge Benjamin Margolin Rottman7. Formalizing Prior Knowledge in Causal Induction Thomas L. Griffiths8. Causal Mechanisms Samuel G. B. Johnson and Woo-kyoung Ahn9. Force Dynamics and Causation Phillip Wolff and Robert Thorstad10. Mental Models and Causation P. N. Johnson- Laird and Sangeet S. Khemlani11. Pseudocontingencies Klaus Fiedler and Florian Kutzner12. Singular Causation David Danks13. Cognitive Neuroscience of Causal Reasoning Joachim T. Operskalski and Aron K. Barbey Part II: Basic Cognitive Functions 14. Visual Impressions of Causality Peter White15. Goal-Directed Actions Bernhard Hommel16. Planning and Control Magda Osman17. Reinforcement Learning and Causal Models Samuel J. Gershman18. Causation and the Probability of Causal Conditionals David E. Over19. Causal Models and Conditional Reasoning Mike Oaksford and Nick Chater20. Concepts as Causal Models: Categorization Bob Rehder21. Concepts as Causal Models: Induction Bob Rehder22. Causal Explanation Tania Lombrozo and Nadya Vasilyeva23. Diagnostic Reasoning Björn Meder and Ralf Mayrhofer24. Inferring Causal Relations by Analogy Keith J. Holyoak and Hee-Seung Lee25. Causal Argument Ulrike Hahn, Roland Bluhm, and Frank Zenker26. Causality in Decision- Making York Hagmayer and Philip M. Fernbach Part III: Domains of Causal Reasoning 27. Intuitive Theories Tobias Gerstenberg and Joshua B. Tenenbaum28. Space, Time, and Causality Marc J. Buehner29. Causation in Legal and Moral Reasoning David A. Lagnado and Tobias Gerstenberg30. The Role of Causal Knowledge in Reasoning About Mental Disorders Woo-kyoung Ahn, Nancy S. Kim, and Matthew S. Lebowitz31. Causality and Causal Reasoning in Natural Language Torgrim Solstad and Oliver Bott32. Social Attribution and Explanation Denis Hilton Part IV: Development, Phylogeny, and Culture33. The Development of Causal Reasoning Paul Muentener and Elizabeth Bonawitz34. Causal Reasoning in Non-Human Animals Christian Schloegl and Julia Fischer35. Causal Cognition and Culture Andrea Bender, Sieghard Beller, and Douglas L. Medin Index

For Kant, causality was one of the pure categories of understanding, hence something of unsurpassable importance for human cognition. This is the first and indeed most comprehensive handbook collecting the rich but widespread psychological research on the cognitive role of the concept of causation. Timely, long-needed, and most useful for many years to come! -Wolfgang Spohn, PhD, Department of Philosophy, University of Konstanz