The Confirmation of Common Component Causes
PSA: Proceedings of the Biennial Meeting of the Philosophy of Science Association 1988:3 - 9 (1988)
| Abstract | This paper aims to show how Whewell's notions of consilience and unification-explicated in more modern probabilistic terms provide a satisfying treatment of cases of scientific discovery Which require the postulatioin component causes to explain complex events. The results of this analysis support the received view that the increased unification and generality of theories leads to greater testability, and confirmation if the observations are favorable. This solves a puzzle raised by Cartwright in How the Laws of Physics Lie about the nature of explanation by the composition of causes. | |||||||||
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