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Reassessing Woodward's account of explanation:regularities,counterfactuals,and non-causal explanations
Explanation Woodward non-causal scaling-laws
2016/6/15
We reassess Woodward’s counterfactual account of explanation in relation to regularity explananda. Woodward (2005) presents an account of causal explanation. We argue, by using an explanation of Kleib...
Philosophers have proposed many alleged examples of non-causal explana- tions of particular events. I discuss several well-known examples and argue that they fail to be non-causal.
Non-local common cause explanations for EPR
Bell’s theorem Bohmian mechanics EPR experiment GRW mass density theory local causality non-local causes
2016/6/13
The paper argues that a causal explanation of the correlated outcomes of EPR-type experiments is desirable and possible. It shows how Bohmian mechanics and the GRW mass density theory offer such an ex...
Explanations in Software Engineering: The Pragmatic Point of View
explanatory pluralism pragmatism explanatory power epistemic interests software engineering
2009/6/24
This article reveals that explanatory practice in software engineering is in accordance with pragmatic explanatory pluralism, which states that explanations should at least partially be evaluated by t...
Explanations are like salted peanuts. Why you can't cut the route toward further reduction.
explanation ideal text Batterman reduction
2008/4/22
This paper is a defense of an elaborated ideal explanatory text conception against criticism as put forward by Bob Batterman. It is argued that Batterman's critique of "philosophical" accounts of scie...
Relativity theory between structural and dynamical explanations
relativity spacetime explanation kinematics dynamics inertia
2008/4/22
In this review article I discuss Harvey Brown’s recent book Physical Relativity (OUP, 2005) by presenting and criticizing some of his main arguments in favour of a dynamical underpinning of rods contr...
Measures, Explanations and the Past: Should 'Special' Initial Conditions be Explained?
second law of thermodynamics initial conditions
2008/4/15
For the generalizations of thermodynamics to obtain, it appears that a very “special” initial condition of the universe is required. Is this initial condition itself in need of explanation? I argue th...
Philosophers frequently cite Dalton?s chemical atomism, and its 19th century developments, as a prime example of inference to the best explanation. This was a controversial issue in its time. But the ...
The claims of some authors to have introduced a new type of explanation in cosmology, based on the anthropic principle, are examined and found wanting. The weak anthropic principle is neither anthropi...