Unique Events: The Underdetermination of Explanation |
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Authors: | Aviezer Tucker |
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Affiliation: | (1) Faculty of Philosophy, Palacky University, Krizkovskeho 12, Olomouc, 77180, Czech Republic |
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Abstract: | The paper explicates unique events and investigates their epistemology. Explications of unique events as individuated, different, and emergent are philosophically uninteresting. Unique events are topics of why-questions that radically underdetermine all their potential explanations. Uniqueness that is relative to a level of scientific development is differentiated from absolute uniqueness. Science eliminates relative uniqueness by discovery of recurrence of events and properties, falsification of assumptions of why-questions, and methodological simplification e.g. by explanatory methodological reduction. Finally, an overview of contemporary philosophical disputes that hinge on issues of uniqueness emphasizes its philosophical significance. |
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Keywords: | Events Explanation Unique Underdetermination |
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