12 articles in this issue
Alexander Gebharter,Gerhard Schurz
Editors’ introduction to the monographic section Explanation, Causality, and Unification.
Stathis Psillos
The goal of this paper is to sketch an empiricist metaphysics of laws of nature. The key idea is that there are regularities without regularity-enforcers. Differently put, there are natural laws without law-makers of a distinct metaphysical kind. Th... see more
Andreas Hüttemann
There have been various attempts to argue from the success of certain aspects of scientific practice to the existence of necessary connections between distinct events. Many of these arguments are based on an inference to the best explanation (IBE). I will... see more
Erik Weber,Merel Lefevere
In the literature on scientific explanation, there is a classical distinction between explanations of facts and explanations of laws. This paper is about explanations of laws, more specifically mechanistic explanations of laws. We investigate whether prov... see more
Gerhard Schurz
In this paper I investigate unification as a virtue of explanation. I the first part of the paper (sec. 1-2) I give a brief exposition of the unification account of Schurz and Lambert (1994) and Schurz (1999). I illustrate the advantages of this account i... see more
Victor Gijsbers
Recent interest in the idea that there can be scientific understanding without explanation lends new relevance to Duhem's notion of natural classification. According to Duhem, a classification that is natural teaches us something about nature without bein... see more
José Martínez Fernández,Jordi Valor Abad
The goal of this paper is to present Yabloesque versions of Grelling’s and Zwicker’s paradoxes concerning the notions of “heterological” and “hypergame” respectively. We will offer counterparts of these paradoxes that do not seem to involve any kind of se... see more
Hubert Marraud
I offer an account of a fortiori arguments in the context of a Toulmin-style theory of argumentation schemes. A fortiori arguments contain a comparison of the strength of two or more arguments involving scalar inferences. We can distinguish two kinds of a... see more
Ezequiel Zerbudis
En este trabajo, critico una estrategia argumental utilizada por autores que pretenden defender la concepción de la rigidez para expresiones predicativas en términos de identidad de lo designado en los distintos mundos posibles. Se trata de una estrategia... see more
Sebastián Álvarez
There are philosophers who deny that causal relations actually exist in nature, arguing that they are merely a product of our perspective as beings capable of intentional actions. In this paper I briefly explain this thesis and consider that it needs to b... see more
Jorge Moreno
El tratado hidrostático fue uno de los primeros textos de Descartes, fruto de su decisivo encuentro con Isaac Beeckman. En este artículo, analizaremos cómo fue concebido y los motivos que llevaron a Descartes a cuestionar alguno de los aspectos fundamenta... see more
Víctor Luque
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