Explanatory directionality

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• Lina Jansson (University of Nottingham)
• Wednesday 23 January 2019, 13:00-14:30
• Seminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

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In this talk I will argue that being careful about conditions of application provides a way of recovering explanatory directionality even in the presence of seemingly non-directed physical laws. I will show how this solution can be extended to some unexpected cases such as why we might take certain symmetries to explain conservation laws without taking conservation laws to explain the symmetries. Finally, I will consider whether this approach can be used in the case of, so-called, distinctively mathematical explanations of physical phenomena and argue that it can.

This talk is part of the CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar series.

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