[MaFLa] invitation to a talk on`Aspects of Non-Causal Explanation`by Alexander Reutlinger - Tuesday, 16 February, 5.30 PM, Zrinyi 14, Room 412

[Krisztina Biber]

The CEU Department of Philosophy cordially invites you to a talk 
(as part of its Departmental Colloquium series)
by
Alexander Reutlinger (Munich Center for Mathematical Philosophy)
on
Aspects of Non-Causal Explanation
 
Tuesday, 16 February 2016, 5.30 PM, Zrinyi 14, Room 412
 
ABSTRACT
 
The goal of this talk is to defend a monist framework for causal and non-causal explanations - a counterfactual theory of explanation (CTE). According to the CTE, both causal and non-causal explanations are explanatory by virtue of revealing counterfactual dependencies between the explanandum and the explanans. I argue that (1) the CTE is applicable to paradigmatic examples of non-causal explanations, and that (2) the CTE has a surprising consequence regarding the asymmetry of explanations.



Krisztina Biber
Department of Philosophy 
Coordinator
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Central European University
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Office: + 36.1.327.3806 | biberk at ceu.hu | www.ceu.hu 
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