HEMPELOVE ŠTANDARDNÉ PRÍKLADY NA NEKAUZÁLNU EXPLANÁCIU VO SVETLE SKOWOVEJ TEÓRIE KAUZÁLNEJ EXPLANÁCIE

• Authors: Makovník Dalibor

Title variants

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Hempel’s standard examples of non-causal explanation in the light of Skow’s theory of causal explanation

• Languages of publication: SK

Abstracts

EN

The paper attempts to respond to some possible objections that could be raised by Skow’s theory of explanation against the two standard examples of non-causal explanation given by Hempel. If these objections would prevail the two standard non-causal examples could be reconstructed as causal explanations. In this paper it is argued that this kind of reconstruction is not possible. The article starts with a detailed analysis of Skow’s theory of causal explanation. Subsequently it tries to show that each of Hempel’s examples put up against the potential objections that could be given in terms of Skow’s theory is ultimately resistant to these objections. Finally, the paper’s conclusion is that Skow’s theory although an interesting approach for reconstructing causal explanations fails as an adequate framework for reconstructing Hempel’s standard examples of non-causal explanation.

Keywords

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NON-CAUSAL EXPLANATION; PARTIAL CAUSAL EXPLANATION; HEMPEL; SKOW

• Publisher: Institute of Philosophy, Slovak Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Filozofia (Philosophy)
• Year: 2022
• Volume: 77
• Issue: 5
• Pages: 311 – 324

Contributors

author

Makovník Dalibor

• Univerzita Komenského v Bratislave, Filozofická fakulta, Gondova 2, 814 99 Bratislava, Slovak Republic

• https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3019-8348

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DOI

https://doi.org/10.31577/filozofia.2022.77.5.1