
Perspectives on Causation Selected Papers from the Jerusalem 2017 Workshop
Causation stands at the heart of all sciences, and as such, philosophers, linguists, and cognitive scientists seek to understand the exact nature of this concept and how causal structures are represented in the human cognitive systems. The philosophical models have been a central motor and a constant point of reference in how thought and to some extent methodology in other disciplines have been shaped. For example, linguists often borrow philosophers’ analyses of causation and assume that the relevant linguistic expressions denote such concepts. Similarly, psychologists and cognitive scientists put to the test models...
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