ArticlePhilosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences2020
General theory of topological explanations and explanatory asymmetry.
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Abstract
In this paper, I present a general theory of topological explanations, and illustrate its fruitfulness by showing how it accounts for explanatory asymmetry. My argument is developed in three steps. In the first step, I show what it is for some topological property
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