Are There Non-Causal Explanations (of Particular Events)?

dc.contributor.author	Skow, Bradford
dc.date.accessioned	2012-10-05T18:36:18Z
dc.date.available	2012-10-05T18:36:18Z
dc.date.issued
dc.identifier.issn	0007-0882
dc.identifier.issn	1464-3537
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/73660
dc.description.abstract	Philosophers have proposed many alleged examples of non-causal explanations of particular events. I discuss several well-known examples and argue that they fail to be non-causal. 1. Questions 2. Preliminaries 3. Explanations that Cite Causally Inert Entities 4. Explanations that Merely Cite Laws, I 5. Stellar Collapse 6. Explanations that Merely Cite Laws, II 7. A Final Example 8. Conclusion	en_US
dc.language.iso	en_US
dc.publisher	Oxford University Press	en_US
dc.rights	Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0	en_US
dc.rights.uri	http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/	en_US
dc.source	MIT web domain	en_US
dc.title	Are There Non-Causal Explanations (of Particular Events)?	en_US
dc.type	Article	en_US
dc.identifier.citation	Skow, Bradford. "Are There Non-Causal Explanations (of Particular Events)?" Forthcoming in The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science.	en_US
dc.contributor.department	Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Linguistics and Philosophy	en_US
dc.contributor.mitauthor	Skow, Bradford
dc.relation.journal	Forthcoming in The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science	en_US
dc.identifier.mitlicense	OPEN_ACCESS_POLICY	en_US
dc.eprint.version	Author's final manuscript	en_US
dc.type.uri	http://purl.org/eprint/type/JournalArticle	en_US
eprint.status	http://purl.org/eprint/status/PeerReviewed	en_US