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Meadwell, Hudson. "Explanations Without Causes and Causes Without Reasons" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Political Science Association, Hyatt Regency Chicago and the Sheraton Chicago Hotel and Towers, Chicago, IL, Aug 30, 2007 <Not Available>. 2008-12-11 <http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p209719_index.html>

Meadwell, H. , 2007-08-30 "Explanations Without Causes and Causes Without Reasons" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Political Science Association, Hyatt Regency Chicago and the Sheraton Chicago Hotel and Towers, Chicago, IL Online <PDF>. 2008-12-11 from http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p209719_index.html

Publication Type: Conference Paper/Unpublished Manuscript Abstract: Much of the current discomfort with mainstream methodology is rooted either in outright rejection of or ambivalence toward a Humean model of causation. The Humean legacy has at least two parts, however. It is not just a question of constant conjunction. The second part of the legacy is the dualism of belief and desire (reason and the passions) which underpins a simple and influential model of instrumentalism. As it stands however, current debates about methodology, particularly the innovations of those participants who are self-consciously anti-Humean, whether in a strong or weak form, do not appear to have recognized that a full-blown challenge to the Humean legacy requires the rejection of instrumentalism and the dictum that reasons are causes, and not simply the rejection of the constant conjunction model of causation. And they therefore do not recognize that what may be left at the heart of the human sciences, when they are evacuated of the Humean legacy, are explanations without causes. This paper examines the place of explanations without causes in the social and human sciences. First of all, do such explanations exist? Second, if they do exist, what is their logical structure? Third, what is their import? And, finally, assuming for the moment that they exist, what are their problems?

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