Depth an account of scientific explanation
Michael Strevens proposes a theory of scientific explanation and understanding that revises and augments the familiar causal approach to explanation. What is revised is the test for explanatorily relevant causal information: Strevens discards the usual criterion of counterfactual dependence in favor...
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Cambridge :
Harvard University Press
2008
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Tabla de Contenidos:
- Approaches to explanation
- Causal and explanatory relevance
- The kairetic account of difference-making
- The kairetic account of explanation
- Extending the kairetic account
- Event explanation and causal claims
- Regularity explanation
- Abstraction in regularity explanation
- Approaches to probabilistic explanation
- Kairetic explanation of frequencies
- Kairetic explanation of single outcomes
- Looking outward
- Looking inward
