Empty-Base Explanation /

This book develops and applies a novel kind of explanation: Empty-Base Explanation. While ordinary explanations have a tripartite structure involving an explanandum, a base of reasons why the explanandum obtains, and a link that connects the reasons to the explanandum, this book argues that there ar...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Kappes, Yannic (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter, [2023]
Colección:Philosophical Analysis , 86
Temas:
Erkenntnistheorie.
Erklärung.
Metaphysik.
Epistemology of metaphysics.
Explanation.
Fundamentality.
Grounding.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Acknowledgements
  • Contents
  • Introduction
  • 1 Preliminaries
  • 2 Introducing Empty-Base Explanation
  • 3 Explanation by Status
  • 4 Explanation of Logical Theorems
  • 5 Causation Ex Nihilo: Could There Be Empty-Base Causal Explanations?
  • 6 Self-Explanation
  • 7 The Epistemology of Empty-Base Explanation
  • Conclusion
  • Bibliography
  • Index

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