PHIL 220 Study Guide - Final Guide: Rudolf Carnap, Externality, Eugenius Warming
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1. 1. 2 explanation: what is an explanation, what are di erent ways of explaining things, explanations can be hard to explain themselves, there are multiple types of explanations which we"ll be exploring. E. g, equations and diagrams: when are explanations good explanations, conspiracy theories are a great example of competing explanations. If you don"t understand something, try and explain to yourself why you don"t understand. Talk to others in the class and feel free to ask patrick for help if you know why you don"t understand. Come to class with these questions about the readings. It"ll help the entire class to understand better. Someone else probably won"t understand either, probably half of the class. All of the authors have spent plenty of time thinking about keu but they may. We need to be sure we understand them, but their writing are not gospel. We try and give our friends positive feedback, think the same way about the readings.
