Drift and "Statistically Abstractive Explanation.".
A hitherto neglected form of explanation is explored, especially its role in population genetics. "Statistically abstractive explanation" (SA explanation) mandates the suppression of factors probabilistically relevant to an explanandum when these factors are extraneous to the theoretical project bei...
| Publicado en: | Philosophy of Science Vol. 76; no. 4; pp. 464 - 488 |
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