Cartwright et al. in European Journal for Philosophy of Science, 10 (3) ( 2020 ) and the new mechanists agree that regular behaviors described in cp laws are generated by mechanisms. However, there is disagreement with regard to the two questions that Cartwright at al. ask: the epistemological question (“What kind of explanation is involved?”) and the ontological question (“What is going on in the world?”). Most importantly, Cartwright et al. argue that the explanation involved is a CL-explanation, while the new mechanists insist that mechanistic explanation and CL-explanation are competitors. In this reply, I will highlight some worries regarding Cartwright et al.’s analysis of the relationship between mechanisms and cp laws and I will provide alternative answers to the two questions in line with the new mechanistic approach.

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回复给维滕市彭伯顿的卡特赖特：“机制，法律和解释”

Cartwright等。《欧洲科学哲学杂志》，第10卷，第3期（2020年），新的机制主义者同意，cp法则中描述的常规行为是由机制产生的。然而，关于卡特赖特等人的两个问题存在分歧。问：认识论问题（“涉及哪种解释？”）和本体论问题（“世界正在发生什么？”）。最重要的是，Cartwright等。他们认为所涉及的解释是CL解释，而新机制主义者则坚持认为机械解释和CL解释是竞争者。在此答复中，我将重点介绍对Cartwright等人对机制与CP规律之间的关系进行分析的担忧，并且我将根据新的机械方法为这两个问题提供替代答案。