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Explanation Beyond Causation - Philosophical Perspectives on Non-Causal Explanations (Hardcover)
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Explanation Beyond Causation - Philosophical Perspectives on Non-Causal Explanations (Hardcover)
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Explanations are important to us in many contexts: in science,
mathematics, philosophy, and also in everyday and juridical
contexts. But what is an explanation? In the philosophical study of
explanation, there is long-standing, influential tradition that
links explanation intimately to causation: we often explain by
providing accurate information about the causes of the phenomenon
to be explained. Such causal accounts have been the received view
of the nature of explanation, particularly in philosophy of
science, since the 1980s. However, philosophers have recently begun
to break with this causal tradition by shifting their focus to
kinds of explanation that do not turn on causal information. The
increasing recognition of the importance of such non-causal
explanations in the sciences and elsewhere raises pressing
questions for philosophers of explanation. What is the nature of
non-causal explanations - and which theory best captures it? How do
non-causal explanations relate to causal ones? How are non-causal
explanations in the sciences related to those in mathematics and
metaphysics? This volume of new essays explores answers to these
and other questions at the heart of contemporary philosophy of
explanation. The essays address these questions from a variety of
perspectives, including general accounts of non-causal and causal
explanations, as well as a wide range of detailed case studies of
non-causal explanations from the sciences, mathematics, and
metaphysics.
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