In earlier publications of the first author it was shown that intentional explanation of actions, functional explanation of biological traits and causal explanation of abnormal events share a common ...

Bradford Skow, Levels of Reasons and Causal Explanation, Philosophy of Science, Vol. 84, No. 5 (December 2017), pp. 905-915 ...

Week 10. Philosophical Accounts of Causal Explanation Although there are many philosophical accounts of causality, those in the Reichenbach tradition are closest to the concerns of social sciences.

When misinformation that provides causal understanding is corrected, people perceive it as a threat to their understanding of the event. Because people want to understand, this is an unpleasant ...

Although all 3 classes of antihypertensive drugs have been associated with cough as a side effect, the causal explanation differs between classes, and the level of evidence is strongest with ...