Week 10. Philosophical Accounts of Causal Explanation Although there are many philosophical accounts of causality, those in the Reichenbach tradition are closest to the concerns of social sciences.

Synthese, Vol. 195, No. 5, Special Issue on NEUROSCIENCE AND ITS PHILOSOPHY (May 2018), pp. 1909-1940 (32 pages) Interventionism is a theory of causal explanation developed by Woodward and Hitchcock.

In earlier publications of the first author it was shown that intentional explanation of actions, functional explanation of biological traits and causal explanation of abnormal events share a common ...