Collin Rice, "Leveraging Distortions: Explanation, Idealization, and Universality in Science" (MIT Press, 2021)
New Books in Philosophy
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What Makes It an Explanatory Factor?
i think there's an overwhelming number of examples in which we should take at least seriously philosophers as well as scientists. So i'l maybe take this in two parts, which is, first, just sayine what makes it an explanation, or what's explanatory about this kind of thing? And then too, why? Why? In chapter four of the book, i try and present a counterfactual dependence, and independence, which i'll talk about in a second,. Aah, even though they're not mechanistic explanations, we shouldn't just sort of bound our fists and sausages with only mechanistic explanationsFirst and foremost: That's what science shows us - that
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