Causal theories of explanation and the challenge of explanatory disagreement

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Causal theories of explanation and the challenge of explanatory disagreement

When evaluating the success of causal theories of explanation the focus has typically been on the legitimacy of causal relations and on putative examples of explanations that we cannot capture in causal terms. Here I motivate the existence of a third kind of problem: the difficulty of accounting for...

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Main Author:	Jansson, Lina
Format:	Article
Published:	University of Chicago Press 2014
Online Access:	https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/34880/

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