Really Statistical Explanations and Genetic Drift.
Really statistical (RS) explanation is a hitherto neglected form of noncausal scientific explanation. Explanations in population biology that appeal to drift are RS explanations. An RS explanation supplies a kind of understanding that a causal explanation of the same result cannot supply. Roughly sp...
| Publicado en: | Philosophy of Science Vol. 80; no. 2; pp. 169 - 189 |
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Cambridge University Press
Apr2013
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| Sumario: | Really statistical (RS) explanation is a hitherto neglected form of noncausal scientific explanation. Explanations in population biology that appeal to drift are RS explanations. An RS explanation supplies a kind of understanding that a causal explanation of the same result cannot supply. Roughly speaking, an RS explanation shows the result to be mere statistical fallout. |
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