Causal and Constitutive Explanation Compared
Causal and Constitutive Explanation Compared
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因果解释和构成解释的比较
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2013
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P. Ylikoski
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本文比较了因果解释和构成解释。虽然科学探究通常涉及因果和构成问题，但区分对于详细理解科学问题及其相互关系至关重要。这些解释有不同种类的解释，它们追踪不同种类的依赖关系。构成性解释不涉及事件或行为，而是因果能力。虽然在建筑和因果操纵之间有一些有趣的关系，但因果和构造不应混淆。宪法是一种同步的、不对称的关系，不能被视为独立存在的关系。然而，尽管它们在形而上学上存在差异，但关于解释的相同关键思想在很大程度上适用于两者。因果解释和构成解释面临着类似的挑战（如相关性和解释回归的问题），两者都是在映射反事实依赖网络的业务，即机制，虽然相关的反事实是不同的种类。最后一节讨论了发展性解释的问题。有人认为，发展的解释值得自己的地方分类的解释，虽然最终发展的依赖关系可以分析为因果关系和构成的依赖关系的组合。因此，因果解释和构成解释是不同的，但并不总是完全分开的解释形式。
This article compares causal and constitutive explanation. While scientific inquiry usually addresses both causal and constitutive questions, making the distinction is crucial for a detailed understanding of scientific questions and their interrelations. These explanations have different kinds of explananda and they track different sorts of dependencies. Constitutive explanations do not address events or behaviors, but causal capacities. While there are some interesting relations between building and causal manipulation, causation and constitution are not to be confused. Constitution is a synchronous and asymmetric relation between relata that cannot be conceived as independent existences. However, despite their metaphysical differences, the same key ideas about explanation largely apply to both. Causal and constitutive explanations face similar challenges (such as the problems of relevance and explanatory regress) and both are in the business of mapping networks of counterfactual dependence—i.e. mechanisms—although the relevant counterfactuals are of a different sort. In the final section the issue of developmental explanation is discussed. It is argued that developmental explanations deserve their own place in taxonomy of explanations, although ultimately developmental dependencies can be analyzed as combinations of causal and constitutive dependencies. Hence, causal and constitutive explanation are distinct, but not always completely separate forms of explanation.
EPSA11 科学哲学的观点和基本问题
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10.1007/978-3-319-01306-0_27
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2013
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Hendry R
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Hendry R