Law and Explanation in Biology: Invariance Is the Kind of Stability That Matters

By James F. Woodward. Philosophia Scientiæ, 2001

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Subfields: Astronomy and Astrophysics, History and Philosophy of Science, Sociology and Political Science

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• Why Attention is Not Explanation: Surgical Intervention and Causal Reasoning about Neural Models (2020, methodology): “Applied to explanation , the interven-tionist account (Woodward, 1997; Woodward, 2000; Woodward, 2001; Woodward, 2005) produces theories of causal explanation in which explananda and ex-planantia are connected via patterns of counterfactual causal dependence, which indicate invariant relations…”