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work_dc5xarfzfzbwbc7vjw5azcn3be	Angela Potochnik	Levels of Explanation Reconceived*	2010	14	.pdf	application/pdf	5952	338	44	A common argument against explanatory reductionism is that higher-level explanations their lower-level alternatives or that higher-level explanations are general in the right this view, the explanation of an event is always improved by giving information about the lower-level determiners of the event—ideally, the about scientific explanation is to defend the value of nonreductive explanations on account of their generality (Fodor 1974; Putnam 1975; Garfinkel 1981; Kitcher 1984; Sober 1984, 1999; Jackson and Pettit 1992). only to systems fitting that microphysical description, a higher-level explanation has a much broader range of applicability. Others who defend the value of general explanations think that the explanatorily important factors are the difference makers (Strevens 2009) The idea that the explanatory importance of causal information is context dependent undermines the claim that higher-level explanations always That is, higherand lower-level explanations generalize to different ranges of systems, thereby highlighting that explanations sometimes should be general (higher level) and other	./cache/work_dc5xarfzfzbwbc7vjw5azcn3be.pdf	./txt/work_dc5xarfzfzbwbc7vjw5azcn3be.txt