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A contextualized approach to biological explanation
Philosophy 80 (2):219-247 (2005)
Abstract
In the paper, starting from a slightly modified version of van Fraassen's pragmatic approach to explanation, I will propose a pragmatical meta-model for the different biological explanatory models. That is, I will offer a pragmatic point of view to rule different explanatory models in function of the biological context from which the given biologist explains.My notes
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