Program Explanation and Higher-Order Properties |
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Authors: | Suzanne Bliss Jordi Fernández |
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Institution: | (1) University of Wollongong, Wollongong, Australia;(2) Philosophy Department, School of Humanities, University of Adelaide, Adelaide, SA, 5005, Australia;; |
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Abstract: | Our aim in this paper is to evaluate Frank Jackson and Philip Pettit’s ‘program explanation’ framework as an account of the
autonomy of the special sciences. We argue that this framework can only explain the autonomy of a limited range of special
science explanations. The reason for this limitation is that the framework overlooks a distinction between two kinds of properties,
which we refer to as ‘higher-level’ and ‘higher-order’ properties. The program explanation framework can account for the autonomy
of special science explanations that appeal to higher-level properties but it does not account for the autonomy of most of
those explanations that appeal to higher-order properties. |
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