Khalifa, Kareem and Doble, Gabriel and Millson, Jared (2018) Counterfactuals and Explanatory Pluralism. [Preprint]
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Abstract
Recent literature on noncausal explanation raises the question as to whether
explanatory monism, the thesis that all explanations submit to the same analysis, is true. The leading monist proposal holds that all explanations support change-relating counterfactuals. We provide several objections to this monist position.
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Item Type: | Preprint | ||||||||||||
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Additional Information: | Forthcoming in BJPS | ||||||||||||
Keywords: | explanation; pluralism; counterfactual | ||||||||||||
Subjects: | General Issues > Causation General Issues > Explanation |
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Depositing User: | Dr. Kareem Khalifa | ||||||||||||
Date Deposited: | 13 May 2018 12:28 | ||||||||||||
Last Modified: | 13 May 2018 12:28 | ||||||||||||
Item ID: | 14664 | ||||||||||||
Subjects: | General Issues > Causation General Issues > Explanation |
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Date: | 2018 | ||||||||||||
URI: | https://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/id/eprint/14664 |
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