Exceptionalist naturalism: Human agency and the causal order

Naturalism and Causal Explanation

Self and Agency: A Defence of Praśastapāda’s Differential Naturalism

Causal agency and the perception of force

In the Michotte task, a ball (X) moves toward a resting ball (Y). In the moment of contact, X stops und Y starts moving. Previous studies have shown that subjects tend to view X as the causal agent ("X launches Y") rather than Y ("Y stops X"). Moreover, X tends to be attributed more force than Y (force asymmetry), which contradicts the laws of Newtonian mechanics. Recent theories of force asymm...

Second-order conditioning of human causal learning

This article provides the Wrst demonstration of a reliable second-order conditioning (SOC) eVect in human causal learning tasks. It demonstrates the human ability to infer relationships between a cause and an eVect that were never paired together during training. Experiments 1a and 1b showed a clear and reliable SOC eVect, while Experiments 2a and 2b demonstrated that Wrst-order extinction did ...

Positivism, Naturalism, and Anti- Naturalism in the Social Sciences