Explanatory asymmetries: laws of nature rehabilitated
The problem of explanatory non-symmetries provides the strongest reason to abandon the view that laws can figure in explanations without causal underpinnings. I argue that this problem can be overcome. The solution that I propose starts from noticing the importance of conditions of application when...
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Journal of Philosophy
2015
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| Online Access: | https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/34875/ |