Are There Non-Causal Explanations (of Particular Events)?

Philosophers have proposed many alleged examples of non-causal explanations of particular events. I discuss several well-known examples and argue that they fail to be non-causal. 1. Questions 2. Preliminaries 3. Explanations that Cite Causally Inert Entities 4. Explanations that Merely Cite La...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Skow, Bradford
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Linguistics and Philosophy
Format: Article
Language:en_US
Published: Oxford University Press 2012
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/73660
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7892-4540