20892 | Democritus was devoted to discovering causal explanations [Democritus, by Eusebius] |
15859 | To investigate the causes of things, study what is best for them [Plato] |
22522 | To grasp something, trace it back to its natural origins [Aristotle] |
1669 | The foundation or source is stronger than the thing it causes [Aristotle] |
13165 | Geometrical proofs do not show causes, as when we prove a triangle contains two right angles [Proclus] |
17238 | Science aims to show causes and generation of things [Hobbes] |
17022 | We should admit only enough causes to explain a phenomenon, and no more [Newton] |
17021 | Natural effects of the same kind should be assumed to have the same causes [Newton] |
19398 | Minds are best explained by their ends, and bodies by efficient causes [Leibniz] |
16805 | Causal inference is by spotting either Agreements or Differences [Mill, by Lipton] |
17062 | If scientific explanation is causal, that rules out mathematical explanation [Smart] |
13052 | Hempel rejects causation as part of explanation [Hempel, by Salmon] |
13061 | Flagpoles explain shadows, and not vice versa, because of temporal ordering [Salmon] |
4809 | Lewis endorses the thesis that all explanation of singular events is causal explanation [Lewis, by Psillos] |
14321 | To explain an event is to provide some information about its causal history [Lewis] |
9658 | An explanation tells us how an event was caused [Lewis] |
16280 | Often explanaton seeks fundamental laws, rather than causal histories [Lewis] |
17094 | The causal theory of explanation neglects determinations which are not causal [Ruben] |
16813 | To explain is to give either the causal history, or the causal mechanism [Lipton] |
16815 | Mathematical and philosophical explanations are not causal [Lipton] |
16846 | A cause may not be an explanation [Lipton] |
16849 | Explanations may be easier to find than causes [Lipton] |
16848 | Causal inferences are clearest when we can manipulate things [Lipton] |
8406 | Not all explanations are causal, but if a thing can be explained at all, it can be explained causally [Sanford] |
4395 | There are non-causal explanations, most typically mathematical explanations [Psillos] |
4806 | An explanation can just be a 'causal story', without laws, as when I knock over some ink [Psillos] |
14367 | An explanation is a causal graph [Woodward,J, by Strevens] |
13929 | Natural explanations give the causal interconnections [Haslanger] |
20058 | Not all explanation is causal. We don't explain a painting's beauty, or the irrationality of root-2, that way [Stout,R] |
15144 | Explanation of causal phenomena concerns essential kinds - but also lack of them [Chakravartty] |
15117 | Greek uses the same word for 'cause' and 'explanation' [Koslicki] |
17299 | There are plenty of examples of non-causal explanation [Audi,P] |