Add to ORKGIn non-causal explanations, some non-causal facts (such as mathematical, modal or metaphysical) are used to explain some physical facts. However, precisely because these explanations abstract away from causal facts, they face two challenges: 1) it is not clear why would one rather than the other non-causal explanantia be relevant for the explanandum; and 2) why would standing in a particular explanatory relation (e.g., “counterfactual dependence”, “constraint”, “entailment”, “constitution”, “grounding”, and so on), and not in some other, be explanatory. I develop an explanatory relevance account which is based on erotetic constraints and show how it addresses these two challenges
A number of philosophers have recently suggested that some abstract, plausibly non-causal and/or mat...
Philosophers have proposed many alleged examples of non-causal explana- tions of particular events. ...
In the spirit of explanatory pluralism, this chapter argues that causal and noncausal explanations o...
In non-causal explanations, some non-causal facts (such as mathematical, modal or metaphysical) are ...
For the past 40 years, causal-mechanical approaches to explanation in science have been the received...
In this BA dissertation, I deploy examples of non-causal explanations of physical phenomena as evide...
In the last couple of years, a few seemingly independent debates on scientific explanation have emer...
In the recent literature on causal and non-causal scientific explanations, there is an intuitive ass...
A number of philosophers have recently suggested that some abstract, plausibly non-causal and/or mat...
This paper examines constraints and their role in scientific explanation. Common views in the philos...
Causal accounts of scientific explanation are currently broadly accepted (though not universally so)...
A popular view presents explanations in the cognitive sciences as causal or mechanistic and argues t...
In the recent philosophy of explanation, a growing attention to and discussion of non-causal explana...
A number of philosophers have recently suggested that some abstract, plausibly non-causal and/or mat...
Philosophers have proposed many alleged examples of non-causal explana- tions of particular events. ...
In the spirit of explanatory pluralism, this chapter argues that causal and noncausal explanations o...
In non-causal explanations, some non-causal facts (such as mathematical, modal or metaphysical) are ...
For the past 40 years, causal-mechanical approaches to explanation in science have been the received...
In this BA dissertation, I deploy examples of non-causal explanations of physical phenomena as evide...
In the last couple of years, a few seemingly independent debates on scientific explanation have emer...
In the recent literature on causal and non-causal scientific explanations, there is an intuitive ass...
A number of philosophers have recently suggested that some abstract, plausibly non-causal and/or mat...
This paper examines constraints and their role in scientific explanation. Common views in the philos...
Causal accounts of scientific explanation are currently broadly accepted (though not universally so)...
A popular view presents explanations in the cognitive sciences as causal or mechanistic and argues t...
In the recent philosophy of explanation, a growing attention to and discussion of non-causal explana...
A number of philosophers have recently suggested that some abstract, plausibly non-causal and/or mat...
Philosophers have proposed many alleged examples of non-causal explana- tions of particular events. ...
In the spirit of explanatory pluralism, this chapter argues that causal and noncausal explanations o...