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Is There A Monist Theory of Causal and Noncausal Explanations? : The Counterfactual Theory of Scientific Explanation Reutlinger, Alexander 2016 Philosophy of Science , Vol. 83 , Issue 5 , S. 733 ff. ( Zeitschrift ) Englisch 0031-8248 | 1539-767X Abstract
The goal of this paper is to develop a counterfactual theory of explanation (CTE). The CTE provides a monist framework for causal and noncausal explanations, according to which both causal and noncausal explanations are explanatory by virtue of revealing counterfactual dependencies between the explanandum and the explanans. I argue that the CTE is applicable to two paradigmatic examples of noncausal explanations: Euler’s explanation and renormalization group explanations of universality.
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