Lina Jansson (Nottingham): “Explanatory indispensability and explanatory fictions” (CANCELLED)

Cancelled due to Pensions Strike

Abstract: Recently, a putative truism about explanation has come under increasing criticism. The putative truism is this: only obtaining facts and existing entities can explain. If the truism fails, then arguments for realism based on explanatory indispensability are also challenged. I will focus on what I take to be the strongest challenge to the putative truism; namely, the explanatory use of fictions and argue that it possible to rescue a limited version of the truism.

Lina Jansson is an Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the University of Nottingham.

#PopperSeminar