نوع مقاله : پژوهشی
نویسنده
دانشجوی کارشناسی ارشد، گروه فلسفه علم، دانشکده مدیریت، علم و فناوری، دانشگاه امیر کبیر، تهران
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عنوان مقاله English
نویسنده English
Abstract: Hitchcock's counter-examples showed that Salmon's revised account of scientific explanation
cannot resolve the problem of explanatory relevance. In this model, interactions of causal processes
introduce different marks or conserved quantities. According to Hitchcock, Salmon's account fails to
distinguish marks or conserved quantities which are explanatorily relevant to the explanandum. The aim of
this paper is to examine Hitchcock's objection within Lipton's contrastive analysis and resolve explanatory relevance problem of salmon's account of scientific explanation. It is argued that by
selecting the appropriate foil and determining the difference between fact and foil, we can distinguish the
explanatory relevant marks or conserved quantities.
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