A pluralist account of non-causal explanation in science and mathematics

Springer Science and Business Media LLC - Tập 27 Số 1 - Trang 3-9 - 2018
Juha Saatsi1
1School of Philosophy, Religion and History of Science, University of Leeds, Leeds, UK

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French, S., and Saatsi, J. (forthcoming). Symmetries and explanatory dependencies in physics. In Explanation beyond causation: philosophical perspectives on non-causal explanations, eds. A. Reutlinger and J. Saatsi. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Jansson, L., and Saatsi, J. (forthcoming). Explanatory abstractions. British Journal for the Philosophy of Science.

Lange, M. 2009. Laws and lawmakers: science, metaphysics, and the laws of nature. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Saatsi, J. 2016. On explanations from geometry of motion. The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science. doi: 10.1093/bjps/axw007 .

Woodward, J. (forthcoming). Some varieties of non-causal explanation. In Explanation beyond causation: philosophical perspectives on non-causal explanations, eds. A. Reutlinger and J. Saatsi. Oxford: Oxford University Press.