Interventionist Explanation and the Problem of Single Variable Boundary Constraints |
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Authors: | Isaac Wilhelm |
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Affiliation: | Rutgers University |
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Abstract: | According to Interventionism , explanations cite invariant relations which hold among multiple variables. Interventionism incorrectly implies, however, that many common scientific explanations—which cite single-variable boundary constraints—are not actually explanatory. So I propose a different account of explanation, similar in spirit to Interventionism , which gets those cases of scientific explanation right. |
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