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Interventionist Explanation and the Problem of Single Variable Boundary Constraints

Author(s) -

Wilhelm Isaac

Publication year - 2020

Publication title -

noûs

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 2.574

H-Index - 66

eISSN - 1468-0068

pISSN - 0029-4624

DOI - 10.1111/nous.12303

Subject(s) - interventionism (politics) , variable (mathematics) , boundary (topology) , invariant (physics) , epistemology , mathematical economics , philosophy , mathematics , political science , law , international relations , mathematical analysis , politics , mathematical physics

According to Interventionism , explanations cite invariant relations which hold among multiple variables. Interventionism incorrectly implies, however, that many common scientific explanations—which cite single‐variable boundary constraints—are not actually explanatory. So I propose a different account of explanation, similar in spirit to Interventionism , which gets those cases of scientific explanation right.

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