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Michael Strevens on explanation and modern scientific knowledge

Thing in itself

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Are You Looking for a Theory of Explanation?

I wanted to see if there was something that all of those approaches had in common and whether there was a sort of a criterion if you like that would tell you what the right level of abstraction was for any particular explanation. So yes, that's, I think this question comes up to in all of the sciences from physics  all the way up through grand history,. Right, okay, so to dive into it then we can look at some examples such as how an empire came about or why certain things happen when they do. That's spanning on the one hand, a kind of a blow by blow step by step causal history. On the other hand, some kinds of explanations that almost seem

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