Non-committal Causal Explanations
International Studies in the Philosophy of Science 24 (2):147-170 (2011)
| Abstract | Some causal explanations are non-committal in that mention of a property in the explanans conveys information about the causal origin of the explanandum even if the property in question plays no causal role for the explanandum . Programme explanations are a variety of non-committal causal (NCC) explanations. Yet their interest is very limited since, as I will argue in this paper, their range of applicability is in fact quite narrow. However there is at least another variety of NCC explanations, causal orientation explanations, which offer a plausible model for many explanations in the special sciences | |||||||||
| Keywords | causal explanations special sciences programme explanations causal exclusion autonomy of special sciences | |||||||||
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