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223 | Tania Lombrozo on What Explanations Are

Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas

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Is There a Relationship Between Explanation and Cause?

The mystery genre has a powerful hold on us psychologically because it mimics cases where we are prompted to find an explanation and where that is central to our ability to learn about the environment./nThere is a debate about whether all explanation is causal, but most is./nThe relationship between explanations and causes is a debated topic in philosophy and psychology.

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