King, Martin (2019) Explanations and Candidate Explanations in Physics. [Preprint]

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There has been a growing trend to include non-causal models in accounts of scientific explanation. A worry addressed in this paper is that without a higher threshold for explanation there are no tools for distinguishing between models that provide genuine explanations and those that provide merely potential explanations. To remedy this, a condition is introduced that extends a veridicality requirement to models that are empirically underdetermined, highly-idealised, or otherwise non-causal. This condition is applied to models of electroweak symmetry breaking beyond the Standard Model.

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Item Type:	Preprint
Creators:	Creators Email ORCID King, Martin mking@uni-bonn.de 0000-0002-6777-3660
Keywords:	scientific explanation, non-causal explanation, veridicality, confirmation, higgs mechanism, particle physics, beyond standard model
Subjects:	General Issues > Confirmation/Induction General Issues > Explanation Specific Sciences > Physics > Fields and Particles General Issues > Models and Idealization Specific Sciences > Physics Specific Sciences > Physics > Quantum Field Theory
Depositing User:	Martin L. King
Date Deposited:	06 Dec 2019 06:47
Last Modified:	06 Dec 2019 06:47
Item ID:	16680
Subjects:	General Issues > Confirmation/Induction General Issues > Explanation Specific Sciences > Physics > Fields and Particles General Issues > Models and Idealization Specific Sciences > Physics Specific Sciences > Physics > Quantum Field Theory
Date:	2019
URI:	https://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/id/eprint/16680

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