Causal Approaches to Scientific Explanation
Causal Approaches to Scientific Explanation

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[New Entry by Lauren Ross and James Woodward on March 17, 2023.]
This entry discusses some accounts of causal explanation developed after approximately 1990. For a discussion of earlier accounts of explanation including the deductive-nomological (DN) model, Wesley Salmon’s statistical relevance and causal mechanical models, and unificationist models, see the general entry on scientific explanation. Recent accounts of non-causal explanation will be discussed in a separate entry. In addition, a substantial amount of recent discussion…

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