Most philosophical accounts of causation take causal relations to obtain between individuals and events in...

A number of developmental psychologists have argued for a theory they call the theory theory...

Philosophers of science increasingly believe that much of science is concerned with understanding the mechanisms...

Philosophers of science principally associate the causal-mechanical view of scientific explanation with the work of...

Eliot Sober and Richard Lewontin claim that genic selection misrepresents the causes of evolution. Their...

A central goal of elementary and secondary science education is to go beyond the facts...

In this paper I criticize Cartwright's analysis of capacities and offer an alternative analysis. I...

In this paper I present both a critical appraisal of Humphreys' probabilistic theory of causality...

In this paper I discuss Searle's claim that the computational properties of a system could...

Elements of Deductive Inference is a introductory textbook in symbolic logic. Joe and I wrote...

This book chapter contains an overview of recent work on mechanisms -- especially the work...

This encyclopedia article provides an overview of developments in the theory of explanation from Hempel...