The Prospects for a Monist Theory of Non-causal Explanation in Science and Mathematics.
We explore the prospects of a monist account of explanation for both non-causal explanations in science and pure mathematics. Our starting point is the counterfactual theory of explanation (CTE) for explanations in science, as advocated in the recent literature on explanation. We argue that, despite...
| Publicado en: | Erkenntnis Vol. 87; no. 4; pp. 1773 - 1794 |
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