Causal Explanations
Andrea White
Chapter from the book: White, A. 2024. Understanding Mental Causation.
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Chapter from the book: White, A. 2024. Understanding Mental Causation.
Chapter 7 argues that it is not necessary for an explanation to be causal that its explanandum designate an effect and its explanans designate an item that is the cause of that effect. The non-relational theory of causation proposed in chapter 6 implies that facts about causal relations are not the only causal facts that causal explanations could answer to. It is suggested that some causal explanations are made true by the non-relational aspect of causal reality, that is, by facts about substances engaging in processes.
White, A. 2024. Causal Explanations. In: White, A, Understanding Mental Causation. York: White Rose University Press. DOI: https://doi.org/10.22599/White.h
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Published on Dec. 17, 2024