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The causal and unification approaches to explanation unified, causally
被引:108
|作者:
Strevens, M
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机构:
[1] Stanford Univ, Stanford, CA 94305 USA
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D O I:
10.1111/j.1468-0068.2004.00466.x
中图分类号:
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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页码:154 / 176
页数:23
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