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  • Toby Handfield, Charles R. Twardy, Kevin B. Korb & Graham Oppy (2008). The Metaphysics of Causal Models: Where's the Biff? Erkenntnis 68 (2):149-68.
    This paper presents an attempt to integrate theories of causal processes—of the kind developed by Wesley Salmon and Phil Dowe—into a theory of causal models using Bayesian networks. We suggest that arcs in causal models must correspond to possible causal processes. Moreover, we suggest that when processes are rendered physically impossible by what occurs on distinct paths, the original model must be restricted by removing the relevant arc. These two techniques suffice to explain cases of late preëmption and other cases (...)
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  • Jeff Kochan (2010). Contrastive Explanation and the 'Strong Programme' in the Sociology of Scientific Knowledge. Social Studies of Science 40 (1):127-44.
    In this essay, I address a novel criticism recently levelled at the Strong Programme by Nick Tosh and Tim Lewens (TL). TL paint Strong Programme theorists as trading on a contrastive form of explanation. With this, TL throw valuable new light on the explanatory methods employed by the Strong Programme. However, as I shall argue, TL run into trouble when they accuse Strong Programme theorists of unduly restricting the contrast space in which legitimate historical and sociological explanations of scientific knowledge (...)
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  • Wesley C. Salmon (1997). Causality and Explanation: A Reply to Two Critiques. Philosophy of Science 64 (3):461-477.
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  • Samuel Schindler, Explaining Without the Real.
    The causal-mechanistic account of explanation (CM) is a very intuitive account of scientific explanations. It guarantees objective explanations because it claims that we explain some set of phenomena by referring to the cause, which produces the phenomena in question. Yet, this intuitive appeal of the CM account comes at a high prize. Not only does one need to presuppose the reality of the cause, but also is one committed to some form of reductionism. The explanans is more fundamental because it (...)
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  • Brad Weslake (forthcoming). Explanatory Depth. Philosophy of Science.
    I defend an account of explanatory depth according to which explanations in the non-fundamental sciences can be deeper than explanations in fundamental physics.
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  • Brad Weslake (2006). Review of Making Things Happen. Australasian Journal of Philosophy 84 (1):136-140.
    The concept of causation plays a central role in many philosophical theories, and yet no account of causation has gained widespread acceptance among those who have investigated its foundations. Theories based on laws, counterfactuals, physical processes, and probabilistic dependence and independence relations (the list is by no means exhaustive) have all received detailed treatment in recent years—and, while no account has been entirely successful, it is generally agreed that the concept has been greatly clarified by the attempts. In this magnificent (...)
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