Explanatory abstractions
A number of philosophers have recently suggested that some abstract, plausibly non-causal and/or mathematical, explanations explain in a way that is radically different from the way causal explanation explain. Namely, while causal explanations explain by providing information about causal dependence...
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Oxford University Press
2016
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| Online Access: | http://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/35901/ http://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/35901/1/Explanatory_abstractions_August__18_2016.pdf |