Causal-explanatory pluralism: How intentions, functions, and mechanisms influence causal ascriptions.

By Tania Lombrozo. 2010

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Subfields: Cognitive Neuroscience, General Decision Sciences, History and Philosophy of Science

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Explanation in Human-AI Systems: A Literature Meta-Review, Synopsis of Key Ideas and Publications, and Bibliography for Explainable AI (2019, background): “are expressions of the causes of things (Ahn, et al., 1995; Gopnik, 2000; Keil, 2006; Lombrozo, 2010).”
Explanations in the wild. (2021, unknown): “…generalization and learning (both when people produce explanations and request them from others, Frazier et al., 2016; Gopnik, 2000; Liquin & Lombrozo, 2022; Mills et al., 2019; Walker et al., 2014; Williams & Lombrozo, 2010), satisfaction offers a window into the psychology of explanation.”
Causal reasoning with forces (2015, background): “A chain of PREVENT relations is known as a double prevention (Collins, 2000; Hall, 2000, 2004, 2006; Schaffer, 2000; Dowe, 2001; McGrath, 2005; Sartorio, 2005; Livengood and Machery, 2007; Lombrozo, 2010; Wolff et al., 2010; Walsh and Sloman, 2011).”
Causal superseding. (2015, background): “We focus here on an aspect of the relationship between counterfactuals and causation that has been referred to as sensitivity (or robustness) of causation (Hitchcock, 2012; Knobe & Szabó, 2013; Lombrozo, 2010; Woodward, 2006).”
Trends and Trajectories for Explainable, Accountable and Intelligible Systems: An HCI Research Agenda (2018, background): “Lombrozo [122, 123, 124] explores the cognitive aspects of”
Outlining the Design Space of Explainable Intelligent Systems for Medical Diagnosis (2019, background): “Lombrozo studied cognitive explanations [28]”
Eye-Tracking Causality (2017, background): “Sometimes, participants’ judgments are influenced by information about causal processes (Lombrozo, 2010; Walsh & Sloman, 2011; Wolff, 2007), whereas at other times, participants care mostly about what would have happened if the cause had been absent (Gerstenberg, Goodman, Lagnado, & Tenenbaum, 2012,”
Intuitive Theories (2020, background): “Several studies have looked into situations in which the predictions of process and dependency accounts are pitted against each other (Chang, 2009; Lombrozo, 2010; Mandel, 2003; Shultz, 1982; Walsh & Sloman, 2011).”
The Instrumental Value of Explanations (2011, background): “The cases considered so far – in particular, the findings from Williams and Lombrozo (2010), Williams et al. (2010), and Legare and Lombrozo (forthcoming) – reveal three related lessons.”
Explanation and Prior Knowledge Running Head: Explanation and Prior Knowledge Explanation and Prior Knowledge Interact to Guide Learning Explanation and Prior Knowledge Interact to Guide Learning (unknown): “Williams and Lombrozo (2010) first proposed the subsumptive constraints account and reported evidence consistent with the idea that explanation drives learners towards patterns with broader scope.”
How, whether, why: Causal judgments as counterfactual contrasts (2015, methodology): “Robustness Finally, it has also been argued that people’s causal judgments are influenced by robustness (Lewis, 1986; Lombrozo, 2010; Woodward, 2006).”
Mind Perception Is the Essence of Morality (2012, background): “, kicking, hitting, social exclusion), and mental causes can account for all of these means as one broad causal structure (i.e., she means to harm me; Lombrozo, 2010).”
The role of prescriptive norms and knowledge in children's and adults' causal selection. (2016, background): “…them, whether they represent the presence or absence of an event, the type of the underlying causal relation, or their relationship to norms (see, e.g., Kahneman & Miller, 1986; Kahneman & Tversky, 1982; Lombrozo, 2010; Mandel, 2003; Roese, 1997; Spellman & Kincannon, 2001; Wells & Gavanski, 1989).”
Causal Reasoning and Large Language Models: Opening a New Frontier for Causality (2023, background): “But humans tend to judge that Mike’s bumping the table caused the beer to spill and that Peter’s bump-ing into Jack, the double preventer, did not Chang (2009); Lombrozo (2010); Moore (2009).”
Explanation and Abductive Inference (2012, background): “Williams and Lombrozo (2010)tested this prediction in several experiments involving category learning.”