Moving Beyond Causes: Optimality Models and Scientific Explanation.

A prominent approach to scientific explanation and modeling claims that for a model to provide an explanation it must accurately represent at least some of the actual causes in the event's causal history. In this paper, I argue that many optimality explanations present a serious challenge to this ca...

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Publicado en:Nous (0029-4624) Vol. 49; no. 3; pp. 589 - 616
Autor principal: Rice, Collin
Formato: Artículo
Publicado: Wiley-Blackwell Sep2015
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