Asymmetry as a challenge to counterfactual accounts of non-causal explanation.
This paper examines some recent attempts that use counterfactuals to understand the asymmetry of non-causal scientific explanations. These attempts recognize that even when there is explanatory asymmetry, there may be symmetry in counterfactual dependence. Therefore, something more than mere counter...
| Published in: | Synthese Vol. 198; no. 4; pp. 3893 - 3919 |
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Springer Nature
Apr2021
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