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How to be an antirealist about metaphysical explanation

How to be an antirealist about metaphysical explanation
How to be an antirealist about metaphysical explanation
Antirealism about metaphysical explanation is relatively underexplored. This paper maps out the territory for the antirealist, explaining what it would take to be an antirealist given various different conceptions of metaphysical explanation, and of the relationship between metaphysical explanation and grounding
antirealism, explanation, grounding, metaphysical explanation
0034-0006
260-273
Thompson, Naomi
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Thompson, Naomi
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Thompson, Naomi (2023) How to be an antirealist about metaphysical explanation. Ratio, 36 (4), 260-273. (doi:10.1111/rati.12367).

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Antirealism about metaphysical explanation is relatively underexplored. This paper maps out the territory for the antirealist, explaining what it would take to be an antirealist given various different conceptions of metaphysical explanation, and of the relationship between metaphysical explanation and grounding

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Accepted/In Press date: 29 January 2023
e-pub ahead of print date: 21 March 2023
Published date: December 2023
Additional Information: Funding Information: Thanks to Darragh Byrne, Anna-Sofia Maurin, and Petter Sandstad for helpful comments and discussion. Thanks too to audiences at Return to Form: the 2022 Ratio annual conference, and at Emergence and Reduction in Science and Metaphysis in Lisbon in July 2022. Publisher Copyright: © 2023 The Author. Ratio published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd.
Keywords: antirealism, explanation, grounding, metaphysical explanation

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Local EPrints ID: 476287
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/476287
ISSN: 0034-0006
PURE UUID: f83b22cf-d2f7-4c5d-85ff-9f02a6ef65d1
ORCID for Naomi Thompson: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0001-8605-6731

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Date deposited: 18 Apr 2023 17:13
Last modified: 26 Jun 2024 01:48

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