Explanatory Abstraction and the Goldilocks Problem: Interventionism Gets Things Just Right
作者： Thomas Blanchard
DOI: 10.1093/BJPS/AXY030
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摘要: AbstractTheories of explanation need to account for a puzzling feature our explanatory practices: the fact that we prefer explanations are relatively abstract but only moderately so. Contra...
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