The wrangle over explanatory relevance suggests that scientific explanationScientific explanations is highly contextual and thus different piece of information is required to answer the why-questions that are raised in different contexts. Mingled representations can offer explanations since they carry scientific information that is able to answer why-questions and hence to explain events. They can be therefore viewed as a novel approach to explanation which nevertheless shares the pros and cons of all others: it is able to explain very well under some contexts, though it may become irrelevant under other contexts. These explanations are non-causalNon-causal for they come from information drawn from the merging between hypothetical and empirical explanations and so they do not describe causal relations between objects in the world nor they are deduced by laws of high generality. The representational minglingRepresentational mingling comes in terms of sets of mingled representations and is having the advantage of allowing either for the application of all its sets at once or for applying different sets of representation as possible answers to various why-questions.

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How Mingled Representations Answer Why-Questions

  • Panagiotis Karadimas

摘要

The wrangle over explanatory relevance suggests that scientific explanationScientific explanations is highly contextual and thus different piece of information is required to answer the why-questions that are raised in different contexts. Mingled representations can offer explanations since they carry scientific information that is able to answer why-questions and hence to explain events. They can be therefore viewed as a novel approach to explanation which nevertheless shares the pros and cons of all others: it is able to explain very well under some contexts, though it may become irrelevant under other contexts. These explanations are non-causalNon-causal for they come from information drawn from the merging between hypothetical and empirical explanations and so they do not describe causal relations between objects in the world nor they are deduced by laws of high generality. The representational minglingRepresentational mingling comes in terms of sets of mingled representations and is having the advantage of allowing either for the application of all its sets at once or for applying different sets of representation as possible answers to various why-questions.