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Juha Saatsi (University of Leeds)
Wednesday 17 February 2016, 13:00-14:30
Explanatory abstractions
- đ¤ Speaker: Juha Saatsi (University of Leeds)
- đ Date & Time: Wednesday 17 February 2016, 13:00 - 14:30
- đ Venue: Seminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science
Abstract
I talk about attempts to analyse the connection between explanations’ abstractness and their explanatory power. I advocate a view according to which abstract, non-causal, and ‘mathematical’ explanations have much in common with counterfactual causal explanations. This opposes a recent trend (Lange, Pincock, etc.) to regard abstractions as explanatory in a sui generis way.
Series This talk is part of the CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar series.
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