The causal and unification approaches to explanation unified, causally

被引:108
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作者
Strevens, M [1 ]
机构
[1] Stanford Univ, Stanford, CA 94305 USA
来源
NOUS | 2004年 / 38卷 / 01期
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10.1111/j.1468-0068.2004.00466.x
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B [哲学、宗教];
学科分类号
01 ; 0101 ;
摘要
Two major modern accounts of explanation are the causal and the unification accounts. My aim in this paper is to provide a kind of unification of the two, by using the central technical apparatus of the unification account to solve a central problem faced by the causal account, namely, the problem of determining which parts of a causal network are explanatorily relevant to the occurrence of an explanandum. The result is a causal account of explanation that has many of the advantages fo the unification account.
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