Of strawberries and energy conservation
Marc draws a distinction between causal explanations and non-causal explanations and argues that non-causal explanations exist. Marc has his own way of drawing the distinction; other philosophers draw the distinction differently. How does Marc draw it? He writes: the distinction between “causal” an...
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| author | Skow, Bradford |
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| description | Marc draws a distinction between causal explanations and non-causal explanations and argues that non-causal explanations exist. Marc has his own way of drawing the distinction; other philosophers draw the distinction differently. How does Marc draw it? He writes:
the distinction between “causal” and “non-causal” explanations (as I will use these terms) lies in how they work—that is, in what gives them explanatory power. A “non-causal” explanation may incidentally identify (or, at least, supply information about) causes of what is being explained. But it does not derive its explanatory power by virtue of doing so. (3; my emphasis) |
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| spelling | mit-1721.1/1144192022-09-23T14:49:10Z Of strawberries and energy conservation Skow, Bradford Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Linguistics and Philosophy Skow, Bradford Marc draws a distinction between causal explanations and non-causal explanations and argues that non-causal explanations exist. Marc has his own way of drawing the distinction; other philosophers draw the distinction differently. How does Marc draw it? He writes: the distinction between “causal” and “non-causal” explanations (as I will use these terms) lies in how they work—that is, in what gives them explanatory power. A “non-causal” explanation may incidentally identify (or, at least, supply information about) causes of what is being explained. But it does not derive its explanatory power by virtue of doing so. (3; my emphasis) 2018-03-27T19:35:49Z 2018-07-01T05:00:06Z 2017-09 2018-01-31T05:00:22Z Article http://purl.org/eprint/type/JournalArticle 0815-0796 1467-9981 http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/114419 Skow, Bradford. “Of Strawberries and Energy Conservation.” Metascience 27, no. 1 (September 2, 2017): 11–18. doi:10.1007/s11016-017-0250-6. https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7892-4540 en http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11016-017-0250-6 Metascience Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/ Springer Science+Business Media B.V. application/pdf Springer Netherlands Springer Netherlands |
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