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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| author | Skow, Bradford |
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| description | 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 Laws, I
5. Stellar Collapse
6. Explanations that Merely Cite Laws, II
7. A Final Example
8. Conclusion |
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| spelling | mit-1721.1/736602022-09-23T11:13:27Z Are There Non-Causal Explanations (of Particular Events)? Skow, Bradford Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Linguistics and Philosophy Skow, Bradford 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 Laws, I 5. Stellar Collapse 6. Explanations that Merely Cite Laws, II 7. A Final Example 8. Conclusion 2012-10-05T18:36:18Z 2012-10-05T18:36:18Z 2014-09 Article http://purl.org/eprint/type/JournalArticle 0007-0882 1464-3537 http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/73660 Skow, Bradford. "Are There Non-Causal Explanations (of Particular Events)?" British Journal for the Philosophy of Science (2014) 65 (3): 445-467. https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7892-4540 en_US http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/bjps/axs047 British Journal for the Philosophy of Science Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/ application/pdf Oxford University Press MIT web domain |
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| title | Are There Non-Causal Explanations (of Particular Events)? |
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| title_short | Are There Non-Causal Explanations (of Particular Events)? |
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