Dear Cambridge Philosophers of Science, On Wednesday Juha Saatsi will talk at CamPoS about "Explanatory Abstractions." It will be in HPS downstairs from 1-2:30 as usual.
His abstract reads: "I talk about attempts to analyse the connection between explanations' abstractness and their explanatory power. I advocate a view according to which abstract, non-causal, and 'mathematical' explanations have much in common with counterfactual causal explanations. This opposes a recent trend (Lange, Pincock, etc.) to regard abstractions as explanatory in a sui generis way." Sincerely, Brian Pitts -- J. Brian Pitts Senior Research Associate Faculty of Philosophy University of Cambridge [email protected] Ph.D., Philosophy/History & Philosophy of Science, University of Notre Dame Ph.D., Physics, University of Texas at Austin _____________________________________________________ To unsubscribe from the CamPhilEvents mailing list, or change your membership options, please visit the list information page: http://bit.ly/CamPhilEvents List archive: http://bit.ly/CamPhilEventsArchive Please note that CamPhilEvents doesn't accept email attachments. See the list information page for further details and suggested alternatives.
