Conjunctive Explanations
Conjunctive Explanations Philosophers and psychologists are increasingly investigating the conditions under which multiple explanations are better in conjunction than they are individually. The…
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Conjunctive Explanations
Philosophers and psychologists are increasingly investigating the conditions under which multiple explanations are better in conjunction than they are individually. The remaining chapters are divided into three parts. This book brings together leading scholars to provide an interdisciplinary and unified discussion of such "conjunctive explanations."The book starts with an introductory chapter expounding the notion of conjunctive explanation and motivating a multifaceted approach to its study.
The second part ("Reasoning About Conjunctive Explanations") includes chapters on the epistemology and logic of conjunctive explanations. Part I includes chapters on "The Nature of Conjunctive Explanations." Each chapter illustrates distinct ways in which explanatory multiplicity is motivated by a careful study of the nature and concept of explanation. Here the contributors propose and