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Why "noncommuting common causes" don't explain anything
nonlocality local causality common cause explanation noncommuting common causes AQFT
2016/6/14
In my commentary, I will argue that the conclusions drawn in the paper Noncommutative causality in algebraic quantum field theory (and similar publications) by Gábor Hofer-Szaboó are incorrect. As pro...
I offer an account of how the quantum theory we have helps us explain the enormous variety of phenomena it is generally taken to explain. The account depends on what I have elsewhere called a pragmati...
Thermodynamic Irreversibility: Does the Big Bang Explain what it Purports to Explain?
Past Hypothesis Big Bang Reversibility objection
2008/4/21
In this paper I examine Albert’s (2000) claim that the low entropy state of the early universe is sufficient to explain irreversible thermodynamic phenomena. In particular, I argue that conditionalisi...
The article presents a survey of what is meant in the social sciences by an "invisible hand explanation", dealing in special with the ideas of Bernard Mandeville, Adam Smith, Carl Menger, Friedrich Au...
How Do Microscopic Models of Financial Markets Explain?
Scientific explanation complex systems econophysics
2008/4/14
Financial theory is in trouble. Market crashes and high volatility are only too familiar to everyone, although the standard theories predict that they hardly ever occur. According to the well-known an...
Two strong arguments have been given in favour of the claim that no selection process whatever can play a role in explaining adaptations. According to the first one, selection is a negative force; it ...
"Well, how did they get on?" Here is a typical enquiry between professionals. On this particular occasion, it came just after the 1998 round of National Curriculum Key Stage 2 Standard Assessment Task...
Empirical Success or Explanatory Success: What does Current Scientific Realism Need to Explain?
Anti-Realist Scientific Realism
2008/4/1
Against the well-known objection that in the history of science there are many theories that are successful but false, Psillos offers a three-pronged defense of scientific realism as the best explanat...
Empirical Success or Explanatory Success: What does Current Scientific Realism Need to Explain?
Anti-Realist Scientific Realism Philosophy of Science Philosophers of Science
2011/9/7
Against the well-known objection that in the history of science there are many theories that are successful but false, Psillos offers a three-pronged defense of scientific realism as the best explanat...