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BI 146 Lauren Ross: Causal and Non-Causal Explanation
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Constraints in Neuroscience
Psychologist Mark lang is a philosopher who has done great work on constraints and how they figure in explanation. In the context of biology, constraints will show up in explaining limits on the size of organisms on the planet. And then with social structural explanations, social structure playing a kind of constraining role on what they can and can't do. Lang: "Constraints provide a very different kind of explanation than the standard type we're used to"
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