Causal theories of explanation and the challenge of explanatory disagreement

• Main Author: Jansson, Lina
• Other Authors: School of Humanities and Social Sciences
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2015
• Subjects: DRNTU::Humanities::Philosophy
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/107291; http://hdl.handle.net/10220/25449; http://dx.doi.org/10.1086/676687
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

When evaluating the success of causal theories of explanation the focus has typically been on the legitimacy of causal relations and on putative examples of explanations that we cannot capture in causal terms. Here I motivate the existence of a third kind of problem: the difficulty of accounting for...