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work_oo3n5wtlj5g5xf7aawnm5prveu	Alexander Franklin	On the Renormalization Group Explanation of Universality	2018	22	.pdf	application/pdf	11241	715	50	abstracting away irrelevant causal details can leave us with a noncausal explanation. this paper, I argue that the common example of Renormalization Group (RG) explanations of universality used to motivate the irrelevancy approach deserves more critical Many philosophers argue that there are certain kinds of abstract mathematical explanations that are noncausal (Batterman 2000, 2010; Colyvan 2001; Felline 2018; case of RG explanations of universality, where the noncausal interpretations are not the causal nature of critical phenomena explanations, so long as the original Hamiltonian represents the To sum up, the explanation of universal macrobehavior of continuous phase transitions through RG is crudely something like the following: the flow of Hamiltonians of For example, Strevens (2008) and Woodward's (2010) approaches to explanation make room for causal abstraction by utilizing concepts such there is no causal-tether in RG transformations and explanations of universality: 1) that universality are noncausal simply because they abstract away lower-level causal details.	./cache/work_oo3n5wtlj5g5xf7aawnm5prveu.pdf	./txt/work_oo3n5wtlj5g5xf7aawnm5prveu.txt