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This lecture looks at two accounts of explantion, the causation account and the unification account. After examinging problems with each, I consider the prospect that we can have a pluralistic, context-sensative acount of 'explanation'. That is, what counts as an explanation in one context might not count in another. This kind of contextualism is argued for by Peter Godfrey-Smith and Bas van Fraassen, but on different grounds.
This lecture looks at two accounts of explantion, the causation account and the unification account. After examinging problems with each, I consider the prospect that we can have a pluralistic, context-sensative acount of 'explanation'. That is, what counts as an explanation in one context might not count in another. This kind of contextualism is argued for by Peter Godfrey-Smith and Bas van Fraassen, but on different grounds.
