Empty-Base Explanation

Yannic Kappes

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English

De Gruyter
07 August 2023

Analytical philosophy & Logical Positivism; Philosophy: metaphysics & ontology; Philosophy: epistemology & theory of knowledge

Series: Philosophical Analysis

This book develops and applies a novel kind of explanation: Empty-Base Explanation. While ordinary explanations have a tripartite structure involving an explanandum, a base of reasons why the explanandum obtains, and a link that connects the reasons to the explanandum, this book argues that there are explanations whose corresponding set of reasons is empty. This novel idea is located in the theoretical background of several fundamental philosophical issues. For example, it provides a convincing kind of ultimate or final explanation that completely and conclusively explains a phenomenon without involving other phenomena for which further explanations could be demanded.

The possibility and fruitfulness of empty-base explanation is defended by general considerations from the theory of explanation, as well as concrete applications to

the practice of explanation by status,

the explanation of logical theorems, causal connections, and laws of nature,

self-explanation,

the use of IBE in metaphysics,

the notion of zero-ground (which it provides with a solid theoretical footing), and

ultimate explanation and its application to philosophical cosmology, the debate about the PSR, and the question of why there is anything at all.

For this book, Yannic Kappes has received the 2022 De Gruyter Prize for Ontology and Metaphysics from the German Society for Analytic Philosophy (GAP).

By: Yannic Kappes
Imprint: De Gruyter
Country of Publication: Germany
Dimensions: Height: 230mm, Width: 155mm,
Weight: 412g
ISBN: 9783111069241
ISBN 10: 3111069249
Series: Philosophical Analysis
Pages: 205
Publication Date: 07 August 2023
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Yannic Kappes, University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria.