Empty-Base Explanation /

This book develops and applies a novel kind of explanation: Empty-Base Explanation. While ordinary explanations have a tripartite structure involving an explanandum, a base of reasons why the explanandum obtains, and a link that connects the reasons to the explanandum, this book argues that there ar...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Kappes, Yannic (Author)
Corporate Author:	Walter de Gruyter & Co
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Language Notes:	In English.
Published:	Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter, [2023]
Series:	Philosophical Analysis , 86
Subjects:	Erkenntnistheorie. Erklärung. Metaphysik. Epistemology of metaphysics. Explanation. Fundamentality. Grounding. Electronic books.
Online Access:	Connect to the full text of this electronic book

Table of Contents:

Frontmatter
Acknowledgements
Contents
Introduction
1 Preliminaries
2 Introducing Empty-Base Explanation
3 Explanation by Status
4 Explanation of Logical Theorems
5 Causation Ex Nihilo: Could There Be Empty-Base Causal Explanations?
6 Self-Explanation
7 The Epistemology of Empty-Base Explanation
Conclusion
Bibliography
Index