A Four-Year Interdisciplinary Project

Causal thinking plays a pivotal role in our understanding of our surroundings in almost all contexts - physical, psychological, moral, social, and historical. Given its importance, it is not surprising that questions about causal knowledge and causal reasoning have become a particular focus of attention in recent psychology. Much of the work in this area draws heavily on philosophy in formulating competing models for testing causal understanding. However, the interpretation of findings obtained so far, as well as the development of new empirical research paradigms, are hampered by the lack of a common focus between philosophers and psychologists. The Project on Causal Understanding aims to address this problem by bringing together philosophers and psychologists who between them will devise a substantive theoretical and empirical framework within which to conduct research on the nature of causal understanding... [from the Project Statement]

This project is an extension of our work on Consciousness and Self Consciousness.

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Sponsor

Other AHRC Projects in related areas:
Metaphysics of Science
The New Ontology of the Mental Causation Debate

Project Directors

Christoph Hoerl,
Philosophy, Warwick University

Project Fellow
Stephen Butterfill
Philosophy, Warwick University

Project PhD Student
Patrick Burns
Psychology, Queen's University Belfast