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In a recent book and an article, Carl Craver construes the relations between different levels of a mechanism, which he also refers to as constitutive relations, by means of mutual manipulability (MM)....
Why Is There Universal Macro-Behavior?Renormalization Group Explanation As Non-causal Explanation
explanation non-causal explanation renormalization group explanation universality
2016/6/15
Renormalization group (RG) methods are an established strategy to explain how it is possible that microscopically different systems exhibit virtually the same macro behavior when undergoing phase-tran...
On the Necessity of Entanglement for the Explanation of Quantum Speedup
quantum computation quantum speedup quantum information entanglement DQC1 mixed state explanation
2016/6/12
Of the many and varied applications of quantum information theory, perhaps the most fascinating is the sub-field of quantum computation. In this sub-field, computational algorithms are designed which ...
Systems Biology and the Integration of Mechanistic Explanation and Mathematical Explanation
Systems biology integration mechanistic explanation mathematical models mechanisms
2016/6/12
The paper discusses how systems biology is working toward complex accounts that integrate explanation in terms of mechanisms and explanation by mathematical models—which some philosophers have viewed ...
Inertial motion,explanation,and the foundations of classical spacetime theories
Inertial motion geodesic principle general relativity Newton-Cartan theory geometrized Newtonian gravitation explanation puzzle-ball view
2016/5/31
I begin by reviewing some recent work on the status of the geodesic principle in general relativity and the geometrized formulation of Newtonian gravitation. I then turn to the question of whether eit...
The key role of causal explanation in the climate change issue
climate change knowledge causal explanation cambio climático conocimiento explicación causal
2016/5/31
In the context of climate change, the adoption of pro-environment behaviour is favoured by the understanding of causal passages within climate science. The understanding of the causes of climate chang...
Darwin's Explanation of Races by Means of Sexual Selection
Descent of Man Adrian Desmond female choice vs. male choice James Moore race sexual selection
2016/5/30
In Darwin's Sacred Cause, Adrian Desmond and James Moore contend that "Darwin would put his utmost into sexual selection because the subject intrigued him, no doubt, but also for a deeper reason: the ...
Causality and Explanation in the Sciences
causality explanation sciences causalidad explicación ciencias
2016/5/30
Editors’ introduction to the special issue on the Causality and Explanation in the Sciences conference, held at the University of Ghent in September 2011.Presentación del número monográfico sobre el c...
Abstraction and its Limits:Finding Space for Novel Explanation
Emergence Abstraction Idealization Explanation Statistical mechanics Thermodynamics Phase transitions
2016/5/30
Several modern accounts of explanation acknowledge the importance of abstraction and idealization for our explanatory practice. However, once we allow a role for abstraction, questions remain. I ask w...
Inference to the Best Explanation and the Importance of Peculiarly Explanatory Virtues
Inference to the best explanation Lipton Woodward Invariance
2016/5/30
Inference to the best explanation has at times appeared almost indistinguishable from a rule that recommends simply that we should infer the hypothesis which is most plausible given available evidence...
Bell inequality and common causal explanation in algebraic quantum field theory
Bell inequality common cause noncommutativity algebraic quantum field theory
2016/5/30
Bell inequalities, understood as constraints between classical conditional probabilities, can be derived from a set of assumptions representing a common causal explanation of classical correlations. A...
Does Structural Realism Provide the Best Explanation of the Predictive Success of Science?
Structural Realism Phlogiston Chemistry Scientific realism
2016/5/30
I examine Carrier’s and Ladyman’s structural realist (‘SR’) explanation of the predictive success of phlogiston chemistry. On their account, it succeeds because phlogiston chemists grasped that there ...
The Case of Regularity in Mechanistic Causal Explanation
mechanism causation regularity explanation
2011/9/6
How regular do mechanisms need to be, in order to count as mechanisms? This paper addresses recent arguments for dropping the requirement of regularity from the definition of a mechanism. I provide an...
This paper investigates the working-method of three important philosophers of explanation: Carl Hempel, Philip Kitcher and Wesley Salmon. We argue that they do three things: (i) construct an explicati...
Scientific Explanation and Scientific Structuralism
structural explanation quantum mechanics model
2011/9/7
In this paper we argue that quantum mechanics provides a genuine kind of structural explanations of quantum phenomena. Since structural explanations only rely on the formal properties of the theory, t...