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BI 146 Lauren Ross: Causal and Non-Causal Explanation
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The New Mechanist Framework of Causal Explanation
The modern era of explanation has been somewhat dominated by what's being called the new a mechanist. The main way, if not the only way, that causal explanations work in biology and medicine is to cite a causal mechanism. A lot of these mechanists don't actually talk about how to define causation. They're interested in the features of a structure that you call a mechanism.
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