Expressivism about explanatory relevance

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    Most accounts of explanation presuppose that claims about explanatory relevance are descriptive or representational: they aim to mirror or represent explanatory relevance relations in reality. On this construal, different accounts of explanation disagree about which explanatory relevance relations obtain in reality. If my account succeeds, then robust metaphysical commitment to explanatory relevance relations is simply orthogonal to the aim of vindicating explanatory reasoning. Most philosophical accounts of scientific explanation presuppose that scientists discover explanatory relevance relations. Similarly, Potochnik claims that "the kind of responsibility that is explanatory is primarily what is at issue among . . .

     

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