| dc.contributor.author | Hunt, Josh | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2022-10-24T12:35:42Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2022-10-24T12:35:42Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2022-10-22 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/145939 | |
| dc.description.abstract | Abstract
Accounts of scientific explanation disagree about what’s required for a cause, law, or other fact to be a reason why an event occurs. In short, they disagree about the conditions for explanatory relevance. Nonetheless, most accounts presuppose that claims about explanatory relevance play a descriptive role in tracking reality. By rejecting the need for this descriptivist assumption, I develop an expressivist account of explanatory relevance and explanation: to judge that an answer is explanatory is to express an attitude of being for being satisfied by that answer. I show how expressivism vindicates ordinary scientific discourse about explanation, including claims about the objectivity and mind-independence of explanations. By avoiding commitment to ontic relevance relations, I rehabilitate an irrealist conception of explanation. | en_US |
| dc.publisher | Springer Netherlands | en_US |
| dc.relation.isversionof | https://doi.org/10.1007/s11098-022-01890-7 | en_US |
| dc.rights | Creative Commons Attribution | en_US |
| dc.rights.uri | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ | en_US |
| dc.source | Springer Netherlands | en_US |
| dc.title | Expressivism about explanatory relevance | en_US |
| dc.type | Article | en_US |
| dc.identifier.citation | Hunt, Josh. 2022. "Expressivism about explanatory relevance." | |
| dc.contributor.department | Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Linguistics and Philosophy | |
| dc.identifier.mitlicense | PUBLISHER_CC | |
| dc.eprint.version | Final published version | en_US |
| dc.type.uri | http://purl.org/eprint/type/JournalArticle | en_US |
| eprint.status | http://purl.org/eprint/status/PeerReviewed | en_US |
| dc.date.updated | 2022-10-23T03:20:40Z | |
| dc.language.rfc3066 | en | |
| dc.rights.holder | The Author(s) | |
| dspace.embargo.terms | N | |
| dspace.date.submission | 2022-10-23T03:20:40Z | |
| mit.license | PUBLISHER_CC | |
| mit.metadata.status | Authority Work and Publication Information Needed | en_US |