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223 | Tania Lombrozo on What Explanations Are
Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas
Is There Something Going On?
The world is a weird mixture of simple and complex, right? And we have to work hard to find the simplicity. I think there might be two things going on. We care about the backwards-looking part because we want to hold people causally or morally responsible. So that's important. But also the practice of explaining why particular events occurred is going to be what allows us to construct a causal model of that domain. Then it's the theory of that domain that will allow us to predictions in the future.
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